Best of luck. Please keep us posted. Important skills I wish I had. Some years ago the bad Chinese capacitors and good Japanese capacitors was a big issue. One problem you might have is voltage regulators or other semiconductors might have blown with defective caps. If you get good at electronics soldering please let us (me) know. I would love to tinker with all the new electronics these days. Unfortunately, I've become a fat fingered goon doing too much rural work. I used to enjoy playing guitar, too. Civilization skills are dear to me. Dan Armbrust wrote: > This particular box is a frontend and backend (and NAS) in one... so it > handles all my recording OTA. > > I could probably move my recording cards to my main computer... but then > I still have to come up with an entire new frontend. > > I've always been happy with mythtv while it was in the "its working" > stage... which is usually would sit at for years at a time. > > And then, I'd get *smart* and try to upgrade it to current, or upgrade > the OS... and spend the next 2 days re-learning mythtv all over again :) > > If I can get the caps (which I've already ordered) soldered on for a > reasonable price... its certainly the easiest option at the moment since > everything else works. > > I'm just afraid that caps on a motherboard is beyond my skill level with > a soldering iron.... but I'll try anyway :) > > If/when that fails... I guess I'll have to figure out if I can put a > modern MB in this case, or if I'm truly starting from scratch and > building a new NAS / Tuner / frontend box. > > > Dan > > > On 08/13/2018 05:29 PM, Kathryn Hogg wrote: >> I jumped to Plex when I got tired of MythTv. >> >> On August 13, 2018 5:25:08 PM Clug <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote: >> >>> This is proooobably not the answer you want, but I was a die-hard MythTV >>> user for *years*, but even I gave up on it. >>> >>> I'd say get a Raspberry PI and throw Kodi/OpenELEC on it. It'll cost you >>> less than replacing capacitors would. >>> >>> On Mon, 13 Aug 2018, Dan Armbrust wrote: >>> >>>> Does anyone know if there is someplace in town that would take a >>>> shot at >>>> replacing some blown capacitors on a motherboard? >>>> >>>> At least, I'm 99% sure they are why it won't boot anymore. >>>> >>>> I'd just replace the board, but its too old, and nobody sells socket >>>> 775 >>>> boards anymore with the right sockets to work in my mythtv frontend. >>>> >>>> Alternatively, if anyone still uses mythtv, do you have up-to-date >>>> recommendations on building a low-power frontend these days? >>>> >>>> I hate to abandon so much other working hardware that does the job fine >>>> (tuners, etc) simply because I can't find a board to put them back >>>> into. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> Dan >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >