[mythtv-users] Hard Backend Lockups

[David Brodbeck]

John Drescher wrote:
> At work I have seen memtest86 fail on a board for the first time 72
> hours into the test. That was several hundred passes... To me the only
> thing the memtest86 or any other tool that stresses hardware tells you
> is the hardware is definitly bad. It can not prove that the hardware
> is 100% problem free.

I had a Dell laptop at one point that would pass MEMTEST86, but would
crash randomly under Windows XP.  It also passed Dell's diagnostics.
Turned out to be a bad SODIMM slot.  MEMTEST86 is the best of the bunch
when it comes to memory testers, but it's not foolproof...