[mythtv-users] OT: dead motherboard or video card?

[Greg Woods]

On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 10:49 -0600, Brian Wood wrote:

> You'd think the "brand name" units might be better than the no-names, but this has not been my experience. The best way I 
> have found to rate a PSU is to pick it up, if it's light as a feather it's probably crap, good quality inductors are 
> fairly heavy.

The new one is considerably heavier than the old one, for whatever
that's worth.


> Plugging your monitor into the mobo's video connector and removing the video card is probably a good way to at least get a 
> start on the problem.

I did this. The onboard chip has the exact same symptoms: works fine in
console mode, but Xorg.0.log says "no device found".


> Even bumping and loosening a card can cause problems. I generally remove all cards and re-seat them (not just push them 
> down) to make sure everything's seated well.

I did that already.

As it happens, I have a PCI sound card as well. Alsamixer doesn't find
it, so I would suspect the entire PCI bus is not working properly and a
mobo replacement is going to be required. Crap.

--Greg