Andrew de Quincey wrote: >>claimed MTBF is surely 5-10 years for such chips. >>more likely your card got overheated in summer in the pc case... ;) >>this would cause chip damage, or electrostatics. > > > Just to add to this - I see this _very_ frequently with DVB-S cards. After a > while, the signal just degrades more and more. If you replace them with a new > card, perfect signal is restored. > > The machines are well ventilated: they're in air conditioned comms. rooms at > multiple sites - I don't think they're overheating. It is a major pain > though :( > > thx mmh.. bought my dvb-s 1.3 as new from fujitsu-siemens and used it for 3 years... no such issues. ok. suggest You mail philips QA for a disturbing probe then... that would be scandalous :| y tom
