Andrew de Quincey wrote: >>>Maybe some dried up electrolytic capacitor making it >>>senstive to small power drop outs, like in: >>>http://defiant.wavecon.de/~alex/dvbbug/dvbbug.html >>If manufacturers would shift to (the more expensive) tantulum >>capacitors, then that would be of no problem i believe.. >> >>But the problem was seen on new cards as well. Electrolytic capacitors < >>than a year old, rarely dry up, but no one can say for sure how old the >>capacitor has been there with the manufacturer. :-( > > It might not even be a capacitor on the card - it could be the power supply or > motherboard itself :( > > I've got one of those mini-itx boards, and it has no end of problems - doesn't > always turn on - the ethernet port sometimes just doesn't work for no good > reason - have to unplug it and leave it unpowered for a couple of minutes. > Are we seeing problems similar to the ones that we see on commercial receivers ? Remove off power, wait, plug it back in.. ? ;-) Manu
