On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:49:05 -0400
Jesse Guardiani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Friday 23 September 2005 1:18 pm, Jesse Guardiani wrote:
> > John Harvey wrote:
> > > And your power supply is up to the job?
> > > Maybe the extra load is overlaoding it and causing
> > > instability, I think i have heard of people having
> > > that sort of problem in the past.
> > >   
> > 
> > I suppose that's possible. I'm just running a 300W power supply, and
> > it's fairly old. I run a P3 733mhz CPU. They're not terribly power
> > hungry.
> > 
> > Also, it was driving my AGP Nvidia FX5200 without any trouble, along
> > with an extra 4 port USB PCI card and a USB 802.11b dongle.
> > All of that equipment is gone now; replaced by the PVR 350.
> > 
> > So I'd say it's unlikely, but certainly possible.
> > 
> > Either way, I'm comforted by the fact that I'm the only one having
> > reliability issues. I'd say chances are good that the new machine
> > won't have any trouble.
> 
> Comfort was short-lived. I got my Knoppmyth system up and running
> on the new hardware last night and had my first lock-up this
> evening. PSU, CPU, RAM, Motherboard, Case: all changed. The only
> things that stayed the same are the software, disk, and PVR350.
> 

It is possible that you're now using a different motherboard, with a lame
chipset on it.  I've had significant issues with many VIA based
motherboards, and issues with some SiS based motherboards.  

The SIS 648 is problematic for me here.

What motherboard are you using, with what chipset?

> So it's either a software issue (I'm not pointing fingers, could
> be kernel or lirc or something just as easily as ivtv) or my PVR
> 350 is bad.
> 
> Do any of you run Knoppmyth R5A16 with the stock kernel & lirc &
> ledxmit?
> 
> If someone out there runs that setup and doesn't have lock ups,
> then it's probably the PVR 350. Otherwise I might have luck
> upgrading my kernel or something:
> 
> $ uname -a
> Linux mythtv 2.6.11.9-chw-2 #1 SMP Sat May 14 12:11:44 CDT 2005 i686 
> GNU/Linux
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> -- 
> Jesse Guardiani
> Programmer/Sys Admin
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