[mythtv-users] Frontend dies ~15 minutes into recording, 1st try only

Dan Ritter dsr-myth at tao.merseine.nu
Wed Jul 30 19:03:05 UTC 2008


On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 03:56:11PM -0300, Mark J. Small wrote:
> 
> Hi everybody,
> 
> My frontend (P3 733, fanless heatsink, 384MB, Debian Stable, debian-multimedia 
> debs, root over NFS, TV out with NVidia Geforce4MX 4400 SVideo) has started 
> acting a little funny lately.  If I  turn it on and start watching a 
> recording, it locks solidly after about 15 minutes.  If I reboot the computer 
> (using the power switch), it works great for hours.
> 
> Does anybody have an idea why this would happen?
> Anyone see anything similar?

I would suspect an overheating problem; the CPU, the motherboard
bridge chips, and the video card processor would be the places
to look.

-dsr-


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