Thomas Jagoditsch writes: > hi all. > > this weekend (saturday afternoon iirc) my vdr-box seems to hang (channel > switching works but no video/audio/epg) so i tried the usual things: > - restart vdr & drivers > - reseted cam (useless because fta doesnt work too) > - reboot & reset machine > > nothing helped so i connected a keyboard and searched the logs. business > as usual (driver logs etc) but every time i switched channels "channel > not synced appears". > now i was a little bit confused and feared a hardware defect of the > card. hoped for some bug in the cabling and searched for my old analogue > receiver in the basement (took some time *g*) and finally got a picture > - so the dish works ... > > a little bit angry and frustrated i turned off the machine to haul it > out of the furniture (lots of work here) - but couldnt believe the final > dead of my dvb-s and turned it on again to try once more - now > everything works as expected !!! > > seems strange to me that the cards crash could last after a reset of the > pc. is there an explanation for this ?
The only time I had such a problem was once when the card was really overheated. It worked again after it cooled down for a while. Only tuning was affected (playback worked). So, it probably is the demodulator which stops working (hence the tuning errors). I only had this problem once and I had 2 cards in slots next to each other at that time. Do you have an old card (1.3) or one with a new tuner (1.5, 1.6, 2.1)? I think the old demodulator created more heat. They were even connected to the tuner casing with heat conducting paste. Ralph -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
