Just to throw it out there, my configuration is as follows: Masterbackend/Frontend
ASUS P4PE Motherboard Intel P4 2.4GHz Celeron (ZALMAN CNPS7000B-ALCU 92mm 2 Ball Cooling Fan) 1Gig DDR333 Memory (2 512Meg Sticks) 1 Barracuda 180Gig IDE Drive 1 Barracuda 250Gig IDE Drive 1 Barracuda 300Gig IDE Drive (All 3 drives are tied together using LVM2/Reiserfs) 1 PVR-350 (Utilizing the TV-Out) 1 PVR-250 (Had a second, but it died) 1 PVR-500MCE (Replacing the dead PVR-250) nVidia GeForce FX5200 Graphics Card Antec Piano Black Overture Desktop Case Gentoo Linux (Kernel 2.6.10-gentoo-r4) Ivtv 0.4.1 (Build 3032 - I think that is the latest) MythTV 0.18.1 XOrg/KDE Slavebackend ASUS P4PE Motherboard Intel P4 2.4GHz Celeron (ZALMAN CNPS7000B-ALCU 92mm 2 Ball Cooling Fan) 512Meg DDR333 Memory 1 Barracuda 200Gig IDE Drive (LVM2/Reiserfs) 1 PVR-350 2 PVR-150MCE nVidia GeForce FX5200 Graphics Card Antec Midtower Case Gentoo Linux (Kernel 2.6.10-gentoo-r4) Ivtv 0.4.1 (Build 3032 - I think that is the latest) MythTV 0.18.1 XOrg/KDE I have had the Masterbackend running rock solid for encoding for months on end. I have had all tuners (4 in the Masterbackend/3 in the Slavebackend) running at the same time without any problems. Of course the use of all tuners at the same time is not a common occurrence. I have had the 350 decoder hang on me every once in a while - sometimes a solid hang, sometimes it recovers. I haven't researched the reasoning due to lack of time and the fact that it does not happen all too often. I have been using the John Harvey's xdriver in combination with xine to playback XviD movies with great success (I'm very happy about the lastest patch by John Harvey to reset the decoder, getting rid of the ugliness when you switch back to mpeg decoding). I'm am continually adding movies to MythVideo because the playback is so nice. My next order of business is to get MythRadio working. "I use board ASUS P4PE and it's always been stable." I don't believe that my infrequent issues have been motherboard related. Even the most unstable versions of ivtv have functioned very well with this motherboard. I also perform a little maintenance on the mysql database when I restart my machine, running "mysqlcheck --auto-repair mythconverg" in a script. --- Jim > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Rouch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 10:29 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ivtv-devel] [OT] Motherboard woes - recommendation wanted > > On 16 Dec 2005 06:48:28 -0800, Jim Reith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On 15 Dec 2005 05:43:57 -0800, Jim Reith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > > >> >On 12/14/05, Chris Rouch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > > Apologies for the off-topic post, but I think there are probably > a lot > > >> > > of people on here with PVR 500s. > > >> > > > > >> > > I own a PC with an ASUS A7N8X deluxe motherboard. This has been > really > > >> > > stable, and I have been very happy with it. Earlier this year I > bought > > >> > > a PVR 500, which I am mostly happy with. However my PC has > become > > >> > > increasingly unstable - it hangs randomly when busy. This can be > when > > >> > > myth is recording and replaying at the same time, but also when > myth > > >> > > is idle and a heavy cron job is running (an rpm -Va for > example). > > >> > > >> I've got this same motherboard and ran it for about 3 months with a > > >> PVR-350 and a PVR-150. I'm about to add a PVR-500 to it so I'm > > >> interested in your results. One thing I would do is check the temps > > >> on it when you have it running. The initial start up problem you > > >> state below probably isn't heat but problems when busy would be when > > >> the thermal load was maxed. See if you have the same issues with the > > >> case open, if you can run with the covers off. I bought round IDE > > >> cables for mine to get better airflow as I have 3 200gb drives in it > > >> along with a DVD writer and it's all been fine. i do have my HDs set > > >> to spin down after 5-10 minutes of inactivity, which dropped my > > >> case temps almost 10 degrees. I have blank slots between my cards so > > >> they aren't causing hotspots in the case and I have a big cooling > > >> heatsink on my CPU > > >> > > > > > >I followed your advice about spinning down the disks when inactive. I > > >have 1 200Gb IDE system disk and 2 250Gb data (1 IDE, 1 SATA). Just > > >after the machine crashes nothing seems especially hot. > > > > but there could be poor cooling in some specific place in the system. > > Do you have the latest BIOS? I had to update mine for it to correctly > > detect my Sempron 2800+ > > Yes - I updated it a while ago. > > > > > > > > >Today I had some time to investigate further, so I removed the PVR 500 > > >and ran some heavy duty jobs (rpm -Va and using vsound to record > > >streamed radio). The machine hung again, which I think absolves the > > >PVR 500, and removes any remaining relevance this post has to this > > >list. That said, if anyone has any suggestions I'd be more than glad > > >to hear them. If someone could point me to a list or forum where this > > >would be relevant, that would also be good. > > > > Have you tried running with the covers off? > > Both off, both on, front cover off. All for extended periods. > > > > My current options are that a) the motherboard model is fine, but > > >this particular one has gone bad or b) there's a family of gremlins in > > >my PC and my best bet is going to be to upgrade the whole thing to an > > >AMD64 system. > > > > Check the threads. There were 64 bit issues going around a while back > > so you might just be trading one problem for another > > I'm still hoping that someone will reply with "I use board XXX and > it's always been stable". > > Regards, > > Chris > > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel
