Hi Kevin, > Issue #1 - Incorrect PSU supplied > > As earlier adopters of the Capture Reference Hardware ran into an > issue of the supplied PSU caused a corruption of the motherboard's > CMOS after a power loss greater than 10 seconds. Even though Logic
This was an issue we encountered with Logic Supply as well, and we have been informed by them that they are taking steps to make sure this doesn't happen again. The PSU that came with the enclosure originally was crap. > Issue #2 - Motherboard failure - RMA-ed on March 10, still waiting > for replacement > > This is more of a general issue regarding with buying components > (rather than going with a computer builder like Dell). Most of the components could be replaced with similar chipsets from different vendors. There would be no issues buying a Dell/etc. PC and putting in the capture specific hardware. The goal of the reference hardware was to share what we are actually testing against. E.g. if you buy a Dell box that's a desktop and draws 200W and put it in a podium enclosure you are going to have lots of hardware die. If you buy a Dell that has a similar chipset to the reference implementation (and can take 2 PCI cards) then you will be ok, but trying to find a Dell you can mount in an audio rack is maybe more difficult. In short, if you want to customize for your environment, be it physical (like a rack) or administrative (like a vendor) you should be fine on most of the components. Feel free to throw ideas out on list for comments, Chris -- Christopher Brooks, BSc, MSc ARIES Laboratory, University of Saskatchewan Web: http://www.cs.usask.ca/~cab938 Phone: 1.306.966.1442 Mail: Advanced Research in Intelligent Educational Systems Laboratory Department of Computer Science University of Saskatchewan 176 Thorvaldson Building 110 Science Place Saskatoon, SK S7N 5C9 _______________________________________________ Matterhorn-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn-users
