[vdr] Re: Hardware falures

[Rene Bartsch <rene@bartschnet.de>]

apieper@gmx.net wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [vdr] Hardware falures (29-Apr-2002 16:09)
> From:    einStein@donau.de
> To:      vdr@linuxtv.org
> 
> 
>>Servus
>>
>>Uhm, are your DVB cards also failing so often? Recently I sent mine to
>>the factory for the second time. I just want to check wether that's just
>>my card or a general problem with Haupauge's cards.
> 
> 
> Here: 1 DVBs-card v1.3, 2 years old -no failure
>       1 DVBs-card v1.3, ~1 year old -no failure
>       1 nova-card, 1/2 year old -no failure
> 
> Because the DVBs-cards (especially the full-featured) get very hot i
> installed a 8cm-cooler in front of them, now i can touch them without
> harm. Maybe your card fails because of the heat?
> 
> ...Andreas
> 
> 
> 
> 

The most often problems are heat or current. When I had many cables in 
my server disturbing air-flow and a weak current, I had many ARM 
crashes. But since I have a housing with a 350 W current and good 
airflow (not even coolers), there was no armcrash anymore for the last 
half year.

Rene