On Jan 28, 2006, at 10:11 AM, Nathan A. Smith wrote: > On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 11:24 -0500, William wrote: >>> >>> I can get mythtv running fine, but after some random amount >>> of time I will have the system reboot. I have seen very >>> little in the logs, what I have seen I posted below. I have >>> noticed that my cpu usage is at 30% >>> -- with no recording going on! So can anyone help a poor soul out? >>> >>> Nasa >>> >>> >> >> Run memtest for a few hours and see if that causes any problems. >> Set up and >> run one of the cpu temp monitors and watch the cpu for overheating >> when >> running mythtv. Also try pulling and re-ordering the cards on your >> motherboard. Could be a bad connection or a irq conflict issue. >> Mythtv uses >> more interupts than just about any other program out there so a >> motherboard >> that does not handle them well could be the problem as well. My >> first board >> based on a via chipset just would not run without crashing. My new >> nvidia >> based board runs flawlessly for weeks. Same memory and cards, just >> different >> mb. >> >> > Thanks everyone, > > I should know better... > > I took the cover off and it's ran stable for the last hour and a > half... > (didn't last that long before). >
I just noticed that is was 38 years ago this week when I started my first "Computer Programming" class. They were having trouble with the machine (IBM 1620) and had to remove some cover plates to get better cooling. I guess some things never change. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
