Yea i thought about that. I have another empty system i might try out today.<br>
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If i have the same problem i'll give all the info you requested.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/14/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Nick</b> <<a href="mailto:knowledgejunkie@gmail.com">knowledgejunkie@gmail.com
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On 14/10/05, MacNean Tyrrell <<a href="mailto:dardack@gmail.com">dardack@gmail.com
</a>> wrote:<br>> Ok, so if my system is up for a day or longer, the system fails. It doesn't<br>> crash. I run mythbackend and frontend out of xterm windows. After a<br>> restart it will record no problem forever, i mean i set it up to record like
<br>> 10 hours on each pvr 250 (i have 2), with no problem. But if it sits for<br>> awhile, than at times it fails. Like i'll check the watch recordings and<br>> the last recording stopped at say like 41:00 into the show, and no more
<br>> shows scheduled for after that recording will record. If i try to go into<br>> the schedule recordings program guide, it locks up. No errors are shown<br>> that i can see. Next time it happens I'll try to write everything down, but
<br>> i've never really seen any error messages. It's almost like it fails to<br>> access the database or something. It happens every couple days or every day<br>> even. It's like i have to reboot the system every day at 5:00pm to make
<br>> sure it records my shows for the nite. It really sucks. I never had this<br>> problem before with the same system. The only change is the new 300gig<br>> harddrive. Now i don't know if perhaps one of the PVR-250 has failed, but
<br>> it's not always the same one that fails i think. I'll try to record at<br>> different times to see if a certain one locks it up, but like lost records 1<br>> minute past 10: and i was recording law and order last nite, lost recorded
<br>> fine on the first encoder, but law and order failed at 41:33 into the show.<br>> Other times there has been no other show recording so it was only the first<br>> recorder recording and that's failed, so don't think its that. Could it
<br>> really be the harddrive? But why would it be able to start but not finish?<br>> I used to have a problem before this harddrive, where if i transcoded<br>> something, when it ended the same thing happened. Like if i accidently hit
<br>> the transcode button but than stopped it, it would do the thing where I<br>> couldn't access the program guide, locks up mythtv, and would stop any<br>> recordings in progress. I know it only happens at the end, because i
<br>> transcoded a DVD to XVID and it recorded all the shows while it was running,<br>> a few hours, but as soon as it finished, it locked up like that. And it<br>> only locks up the program guide, i can go to watch recordings and stuff like
<br>> that. Don't know about live tv, never use it so never checked. But now it<br>> does it almost every day, if not every day. Can any one help?<br>><br>> New Hraddrive:<br>><br>> Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB
3.5" IDE Ultra ATA133 Hard Drive - OEM--<br>> Video Card: SiS 315<br>> Memory: PC 133, 2 128 sticks, 1 256 stick<br>> 2 pvr-250's, one recently RMA'd got a new one (recently, about 6 months)<br>> KT133 mobo i believe,
<br>> AMD Athlon 850<br>><br>> Need anything else?<br><br>How about your linux/mythtv versions and the mythbackend and system<br>logs from the time the machine stops recording/hangs? They may contain<br>useful info.
<br><br>Bearing in mind you're running a VIA-based system, it could be related<br>to DMA issues.<br><br>Nick<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">
mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Sincerely,
<br><br>MacNean C. Tyrrell