[mythtv-users] QAM channel scan with pcHDTV-5500 crashes machine

[Raymond Wagner]

On 1/27/2011 01:48, Bob Sully wrote:
> I have installed a pcHDTV-5500 card (previously in the other BE/FE).
>
> Tried to run a QAM-256 channels scan on it through mythtv-setup/channel
> editor/channel scan.  It went through 59 channels, didn't get a lock -
> until the 60th - it got a channel lock, then hard-crashed the machine -
> had to hit the reset button and reboot.

MythTV shouldn't be able to do anything that could panic your machine.  
That sounds more like a driver issue, or maybe a hardware fault on the 
card.  Can you try scanning externally using the scan tools in the 
dvb-utils package?