2009-12-06, 02:00
I've had XBMC Live running perfectly on an HTPC I built for a few months now. It was booting off an 8 gig USB drive and connected to my receiver over HDMI.
Gigabyte GA-E7AUM-DS2H
E5200 CPU
2 GB RAM
I didn't use it for about a week and a half and went to boot it up today. It booted to the main menu like normal. I didn't use it for a few minutes because I was fiddling with my iPhone to fix the XBMC remote config. The remote app said it was connected to XBMC but the menu was unresponsive. I let it sit for a few minutes, then plugged in a keyboard to see if it was an issue with my phone, but it was still unresponsive.
I did a hard reboot on the case. The BIOS loaded fine and it booted to the USB stick like normal and picked the Nvidia GPU option on the boot loader like it always does. Then, like normal, the glowing "XBMC" logo showed up for a few seconds, but then it went haywire. The signal alternating from being out, to static, to a split second flash of command line-ish text in the upper left saying what *looked* (couldn't get a clear read even after trying this multiple times) like
"Hardware abstraction layer [unsure of the last word or two"
Long file path
Long file path
"Hardware abstraction layer [unsure of the last word or two"
It just kept on going from black to static to a flash of that text and back. I did this a few times but I was worried it would be hard on my TV. Next I connected the box to my desktop monitor with DVI and had the exact same thing happen (no static this time, just going from black to no signal to a brief glimpse of text).
Next, thinking maybe my drive was corrupted, I tried booting from the XBMC Live CD and the same thing happened again.
This leads me believe that I have some kind of hardware failure. Any idea what it might be? Or is something else going on?
Gigabyte GA-E7AUM-DS2H
E5200 CPU
2 GB RAM
I didn't use it for about a week and a half and went to boot it up today. It booted to the main menu like normal. I didn't use it for a few minutes because I was fiddling with my iPhone to fix the XBMC remote config. The remote app said it was connected to XBMC but the menu was unresponsive. I let it sit for a few minutes, then plugged in a keyboard to see if it was an issue with my phone, but it was still unresponsive.
I did a hard reboot on the case. The BIOS loaded fine and it booted to the USB stick like normal and picked the Nvidia GPU option on the boot loader like it always does. Then, like normal, the glowing "XBMC" logo showed up for a few seconds, but then it went haywire. The signal alternating from being out, to static, to a split second flash of command line-ish text in the upper left saying what *looked* (couldn't get a clear read even after trying this multiple times) like
"Hardware abstraction layer [unsure of the last word or two"
Long file path
Long file path
"Hardware abstraction layer [unsure of the last word or two"
It just kept on going from black to static to a flash of that text and back. I did this a few times but I was worried it would be hard on my TV. Next I connected the box to my desktop monitor with DVI and had the exact same thing happen (no static this time, just going from black to no signal to a brief glimpse of text).
Next, thinking maybe my drive was corrupted, I tried booting from the XBMC Live CD and the same thing happened again.
This leads me believe that I have some kind of hardware failure. Any idea what it might be? Or is something else going on?