[mythtv-users] Hard Lockups
Thom Paine
painethom at gmail.com
Mon Feb 28 03:10:51 UTC 2005
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 21:23:42 -0500, cythraul <cythrault at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have found that bad or incorrectly set (in the bios) memory often
> causes hardware lockups.
>
> Since you added some load on your machine by adding (and using) a
> second tuner, your memory usage may have increased to the point were
> your affected memory is used.
>
> May I suggest you run one or two passes of memtest: http://www.memtest.org/
>
> But, you could simply have a different problem. :)
I tried a memtest when I put the ram in the computer when I first
assembled it, and I periodically test it. I have memtest installed as
part of grub.
Thanks
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