KHTPC75 wrote:
I think we can rule out power. I used to be plugged into just a power strip, then a belkin ups, now I'm plugged into 2 APC 3000 UPSs.
Is it something with the cable feed? it's happening with various cable providers. My 2 8300HDs never have issues. I've had the exact same one for 7 years and the other about 5.
If it's the cable feed or cablecard reboot, the ceton card should handle either issues without a segfault. It should handle them without a memory leak.
What is a segmentation fault? Wikipedia says "A segmentation fault occurs when a program attempts to access a memory location that it is not allowed to access, or attempts to access a memory location in a way that is not allowed (for example, attempting to write to a read-only location, or to overwrite part of the operating system".
A segfault can also be caused by faulty hardware, memory or driver.
The thing with the Ceton InfiniTV 4 PCIe device is that it is its own little computer. It runs its own OS, has its own sdram, its own nvram storage, etc. If something is segfaulting in the infinitv OS, it's because something occurred within the infinitv 4 pcie card to cause it. Does it write a core dump? Can that core dump be accessed and analyzed? Wish I knew.
Think about this also...The USB device isn't plugged into the motherboard via a pcie bus. It only talks to the OS via infinitv's usb driver. It's been crashing and rebooting as well although I haven't been able to get a hold of a diag from one.
All very good points.
I'll add that the problem is much more widespread than Ceton would lead us to believe.
I just went through only the last 2 weeks of posts on avsforum.com, and I counted 13 people who appear to have the crash/reboot issue.
Given that only a small fraction of the people who have the issue are likely to post about it on avsforum, it is safe to assume that the number of people who have their InfiniTVs crashing and rebooting is much, much larger than 13. As a comparison, I've heard a TV exec say that for every complaint that they receive, they assume that there are at least 100 more people with the same complaint who did not bother to contact them.
But regardless of how many people in total have the crash/reboot issue, it is clear that if 13 people on avsforum have posted about it in the past 2 weeks, it is extremely unlikely to be isolated to a specific motherboard or specific cable TV provider.
The problem is buggy Ceton firmware, or some other fault in the InfiniTVs.