[mythtvnz] Dead... again.

[Barry Clearwater]

Its always useful to have another machine that you can ssh into the
mythbox with to see exactly what has "locked" up. Very seldom does a
whole system go down without some serious hardware juju of some kind.
Have a linux boot cd somewhere handy.
Barry

On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 04:45 +1200, AlanP wrote:
> At 08:39 p.m. 7/07/2008, you wrote:
> >If you have instability it's probably faulty hardware, over heating, dirty
> >power or some other problem. Installing Windows isn't going to fix that,
> >but by all means go ahead.
> 
> I had gotten very grumpy when I posted that, please excuse my bad temper. 
> (Posting after a long day's work is bad.)
> 
> I've put more fans into the box, and it's still flakey, so I'm going to 
> replace the motherboard, CPU, and RAM. A A64 4800+ CPU, 1GB ram, and 
> http://www.pp.co.nz/products.php?pp_id=AA05908 ASUS M3A-H/HDMI -- does 
> anyone know if this won't work with Knoppmyth or with Linux in general?
> 
> The problem that caused the DB corruption, I suspect, was having to power 
> cycle the computer. It would boot, but show absolutely nothing through the 
> video out, so I reset it decidedly more often than I should have, which did 
> me no favours in the long run.
> 
> >hads
> 
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