[mythtv-users] Hardware failure?

Calvin Harrigan charriglists at bellsouth.net
Tue Mar 22 18:02:01 UTC 2005


Josh Burks wrote:

>On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 09:54:35 -0500 (EST), Patrick Davila
><pdavila at thelinuxlink.net> wrote:
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>>Hello all,
>>I have a dedicated MythTV box with a 1 year old Hauppauge 350 card. I built
>>it a couple months back running FC3 via Jarod's How-To. Everything was
>>working great on it until a couple days ago after I moved it to the family
>>room. It seems everything is loading up ok except the encoder portion of
>>the card is not initializing and I'm not able to watch/record live tv. The
>>decoder works perfectly as I can watch previously recorded shows. My
>>remote is working fine as well. I cleaned out old versions of the kernel
>>and the different various modules required for MythTV but nothing worked.
>>Is there any way to determine if the card is dying? What's the easiest way
>>to debug this? All and any help is much appreciated.
>>
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>When my PVR-250 started acting funny, I threw in an old drive an
>installed WInXP with the offical drivers from the Hauppauge site and
>tested it. Then I installed the card in another computer, reinstalled
>Windows and the drivers on the old hard drive, and tested it. In both
>cases my card was not able to tune over half of the channels.
>
>I RMA'd it and now I'm back in business.
>
>Since you moved the whole computer, you might need to remove and
>reinsert the card in the PCI slot, it may have wiggled loose.
>
>Josh
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I think removing and re-inserting the drive is  a good idea.

Calvin...




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