So if they're prone to overheating... why haven't you tried cooling them?
James L. Paul wrote:
Brad Fuller wrote:
Brian Fischer wrote:
I am experiencing a black screen on my pvr-250 after a few weeks of
uptime
with my myth box. I believe the cause is overheating because I
cannot get
my live tv to work until I shutdown and leave the computer off for
about 30
minutes. A reboot will not fix this issue. I plan on adding a new
fan to
the system, but wanted to know if anyone has a solution or
suggestions to
fix this.
If you think you have a heat problem, open the PC and run it until
you have your suspected heat issue. Then spray the suspected
component with freeze spray and view if you have any changes in the
video output. Sometimes you can find intermittent thermal problems
with freeze spray -- not always.
On the other hand, how many people have heat problems with PVRx50s?
It might be something else.
I don't know how many people, but I'll raise my hand here. In the past
2 years I've had 4 PVR-250 cards die due to heat. The 4th one just
gave out a couple weeks ago. First the tuner gets noisy for a month or
so, then I start getting dropout that results in corrupted recordings
and cause commercial detection to crash. Then I buy a replacement.
I'm currently down to 2 cards again and am planning this time to
replace with two PVR-500 cards.
My system is a RedHat9-based Athlon 2600+ in a Gigabyte GA7VT600 MB
with 512MB RAM, watercooled in a 4U rack chassis. The PVR cards get
HOT and are the main source of heat inside the chassis. They seem to
last up to a year. Of the 6 total cards I've had, none of them are
still in service after over 2 years.
YMMV :)
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