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Hi,
has anyone else had their sound card blown from using xbmc? I have had my onboard sound card blow a few days ago after xbmc crashed from the pulseaudio bug when stopping a video.
I then installed an old soundblaster live card and disabling pulseaudio, xbmc seemed to run good, until today when xbmc crashed when playing an mp3, bricking this sound card as well.
I have tried the sound card in another pc and the onboard one in windows xp as I dual boot. They are both gubbed.
I don't wont to brick another sound card, so was wondering if there is a problem with xbmc for ubuntu 8.10?
Thanks,
Darren
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elupus
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Software shouldn't be able to kill hw normally. I'd say that must be a kernel bug in the alsa drivers in that case. And what makes you think it's broke.
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gbyte
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Are you sure it's not your mainboard or bios at fault? I agree with elupus, it's either kernel bug that flash your hardware or it's simply broken Power Suply or MainBoard that burn chips.
Does "old" Sound Blaster cards have anything flash-able at all?
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I wouldn't of thought that xbmc would cause physical damage to a sound card, but in my case my on-board sound card did fry, with one too many forever sound loop crashes (forever until I disable alsa I mean). The sound card will not be detected on ubuntu or windows anymore since the last crash using this card. All I can really do to test it is disable the on-board sound card then re-enable it again and test in different OS to see if it is being detected.
My sound blaster live card started working again after 4-5 restarts. Ubuntu seems to detect the sound card sometimes but not always now though as before it was being detected every time. I have never checked to see if the sb live! card is flash-able, will look into that when get more time. The sb live! cards must be 6-7 year old by now.
It could just be a problem with the pc as it is a new motherboard in it and I have not messed about with it long enough to test properly but just wanted to make sure that I am not doing any serious harm by trying to get xbmc running reliably with these random crashes.
Thanks for your info,
Darren
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xgrep
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If you have bad static near the box and a poorly grounded case you'll blow sound cards quite often.
Happens in our office with some of the older cases that sit on carpet.
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I'm pretty sure that XBMC linux just broke my sound card too - not all of it, just the digital output.
XBMC crashed and since then I can't get the card to work whatsoever.....
