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sonyguy
07-08-2005, 03:16 PM
Hi, I have a fully stock, unmodified, Sony svr-3000, about a year ago it started to overheat, and therefore restart, I gave it more air and solved the overheating problem. But not the restarting, I’ve resoldered a lot of bad contact on the board and it seamed to fix the problem until a few months ago when it began to restart again, and it got steadily worse, restarting every half hour. When I unplug it for 15 minutes it seams to fix it for a month than it comes back. Sometimes whacking it helps. It no longer overheats, I don’t even know if the two are related. I do not have any more ideas; does anyone out there have any? I am considering replacing the hard drive, but I do not know if it will help.
fixn278
07-08-2005, 04:13 PM
Hi, I have a fully stock, unmodified, Sony svr-3000, about a year ago it started to overheat, and therefore restart, I gave it more air and solved the overheating problem. But not the restarting, I’ve resoldered a lot of bad contact on the board and it seamed to fix the problem until a few months ago when it began to restart again, and it got steadily worse, restarting every half hour. When I unplug it for 15 minutes it seams to fix it for a month than it comes back. Sometimes whacking it helps. It no longer overheats, I don’t even know if the two are related. I do not have any more ideas; does anyone out there have any? I am considering replacing the hard drive, but I do not know if it will help.

Whacking it may not be the best approach for potentially bad solder-joints...

Step away from the hammer and look in the logs.
PapaSmurf
07-08-2005, 04:43 PM
Step away from the hammer and look in the logs.

On a "fully stock, unmodified, Sony svr-3000" you may want to point out that he would need to pull the drive and boot up a compatible linux kernel to do that. :rolleyes:
fixn278
07-09-2005, 12:13 AM
On a "fully stock, unmodified, Sony svr-3000" you may want to point out that he would need to pull the drive and boot up a compatible linux kernel to do that. :rolleyes:

I might not.
PapaSmurf
07-09-2005, 01:32 AM
I might not.

Well of course not, no need now.