[mythtvnz] Diagnosing the jitters - lesson to be learned!

[Miles Rout]

Thanks dad. Good to know you care.

:)

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:

> My frontend (a hp/compaq 7100 small form factor with a half height PCIe
> GT8400GS) has been running like a dog lately. Skipping, out of sync, jumpy.
> Same in mythtv, xbmc and mplayer.* I was unconcerned as it is mainly used
> by the kids and I hadn't realised how bad it had got*. Finally sat down to
> diagnose on sunday.
>
> Ultimately thought some update or other must have screwed something in the
> nvidia drivers. Finally decided to do a reinstall. There is no data to speak
> of on the machine.
>
> Complete reinstall and update, still running like a dog. Run
> nvidia-settings and discover the video card appears to be running at 148 deg
> C and auto slows down at 130 or 140. Yikes. I know in the past it runs at
> low 70s at idle and mid to high 70s decoding 1080p.
>
> Turn off, unplug, open up. Just happened to buy a can of compressed air
> yesterday [1]. clean out system fans and video card fans, boot up and card
> running at 72 deg.
>
> Wish I had thought of that a while ago. There was an important setting I
> forgot to back up before reinstalling and now I have to trawl through masses
> of alsa documentation to fix it.
>
> C'est la vie.
>
> [1] complete co-incidence, happened to be at counter at Dick Smith and saw
> someone else buy one and thought yeah, I need another can of that!
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