I realised I was using the 3Com adaptor rather than the NVIDIA (the
motherboard has 1 of each built-in) so I've switched them over as the
manufacturers drivers are quite old whereas the NVIDIA is newer. Having said
that, running the server as a service overnight with no front-end has caused
no problems, the player is still playing the list I gave it and it was on
the 3com until this morning.
My PC Is running a new (1 week old) 3000 XP Athlon with new fan, in a case
with 8 other fans and the CPU temperature is 42.1C and the PSU is a 1 week
old 500W.
I'll try splitting the music library.
John M Hunt
-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-bounces (AT) lists (DOT) slimdevices.com
[mailto:discuss-bounces (AT) lists (DOT) slimdevices.com] On Behalf Of Jack Coates
Sent: 12 July 2004 02:01
To: Slim Devices Discussion
Subject: [slim] Giving up and sending it back
>
> Zonealarm is closed when I run slimserver. Two or 3 others have reported
> similar problems, it's unlikely we all have hardware problems. I updated
> the
What makes you say that? Once upon a time this same thing happened, and it
turned out to be caused by an Intel NIC where the XP driver was enabling
an option that made things break. That wasn't Slimserver's fault and there
was nothing Slim Devices could do to detect or prevent it until it
happened. I repeat, perl has no hardware access. For your machine to
crash, the OS has to do something wrong or the hardware has to fail. It is
possible for perl to make your machine become temporarily unresponsive by
requesting lots of memory or recursively looping, which is why I suggested
that you start splitting your library and looking for corrupt files and
tags. It is also possible that the extra load of recursive looping is
causing your hardware problem to get bad enough to cause the crash -- this
is in fact highly likely if your machine's power supply is too small or
your CPU is overheating.
> drivers and tried again, not even a song played all the way through. No
> network problems if I don't run Slim Server - certainly tells me
> something!
>
If I leave a piece of meat out in the back forty for a few days, it
develops maggots. This tells me that maggots spontaneously form in rotting
meat, correct? Lots of smart people used to think so, until someone
thought to try letting meat rot in a sealed jar. You've got to think
holistically when troubleshooting computers, cause and effect observation
are useless unless you're tracking all the causes.
--
Jack At Monkeynoodle.Org: It's A Scientific Venture...
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired,
signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not
fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -- President Dwight D.
Eisenhower, April 16, 1953
motherboard has 1 of each built-in) so I've switched them over as the
manufacturers drivers are quite old whereas the NVIDIA is newer. Having said
that, running the server as a service overnight with no front-end has caused
no problems, the player is still playing the list I gave it and it was on
the 3com until this morning.
My PC Is running a new (1 week old) 3000 XP Athlon with new fan, in a case
with 8 other fans and the CPU temperature is 42.1C and the PSU is a 1 week
old 500W.
I'll try splitting the music library.
John M Hunt
-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-bounces (AT) lists (DOT) slimdevices.com
[mailto:discuss-bounces (AT) lists (DOT) slimdevices.com] On Behalf Of Jack Coates
Sent: 12 July 2004 02:01
To: Slim Devices Discussion
Subject: [slim] Giving up and sending it back
>
> Zonealarm is closed when I run slimserver. Two or 3 others have reported
> similar problems, it's unlikely we all have hardware problems. I updated
> the
What makes you say that? Once upon a time this same thing happened, and it
turned out to be caused by an Intel NIC where the XP driver was enabling
an option that made things break. That wasn't Slimserver's fault and there
was nothing Slim Devices could do to detect or prevent it until it
happened. I repeat, perl has no hardware access. For your machine to
crash, the OS has to do something wrong or the hardware has to fail. It is
possible for perl to make your machine become temporarily unresponsive by
requesting lots of memory or recursively looping, which is why I suggested
that you start splitting your library and looking for corrupt files and
tags. It is also possible that the extra load of recursive looping is
causing your hardware problem to get bad enough to cause the crash -- this
is in fact highly likely if your machine's power supply is too small or
your CPU is overheating.
> drivers and tried again, not even a song played all the way through. No
> network problems if I don't run Slim Server - certainly tells me
> something!
>
If I leave a piece of meat out in the back forty for a few days, it
develops maggots. This tells me that maggots spontaneously form in rotting
meat, correct? Lots of smart people used to think so, until someone
thought to try letting meat rot in a sealed jar. You've got to think
holistically when troubleshooting computers, cause and effect observation
are useless unless you're tracking all the causes.
--
Jack At Monkeynoodle.Org: It's A Scientific Venture...
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired,
signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not
fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -- President Dwight D.
Eisenhower, April 16, 1953