At 09:15 AM 11/06/2010, Brian Weeden wrote:
Got another weird one. My HTPC has suddenly developed an issue where it
turns it self off. Not crash, but completely powers off. And the only time
it happens is when I ask it to encode video, such as using Handbrake. It
gets a few minutes into the operation and boom. Everything else - surfing,
ripping, 1080p playback, etc is perfectly smooth and fine.
I'm thinking this could be power issue. My guess is that when both cores
ramp up to full power to encode the video, the power supply can't handle it
and it dies. The only recent change I've made is adding another disk to the
RAID array
Or it's heat. I'd replace the thermal compound on the CPU and run a
CPU temp logging program and see if there is a corelation.
T
