Replying to my own post to add more detail: According to the manual mine is a 945PL Neo (MS-7236). Cannot reboot now to have a look at the BIOS (doing 2 recordings and a playback at the moment ;-)).
So it is probably not exactly the same board, but very similar. Good luck, hope your board is just as good for you as mine is for me... Regards, Stanley. >> The real test would be if all 4 PVR 500's will work (stable) with a new >> motherboard, and I don't have a motherboard in my desktop machine with 4 >> PCI >> slots. On a whim, I've crossed my fingers and purchased a new MSI >> 945P_Neo3-F and Intel Core 2 Duo 6600E (and 2Gigs DDR2) to replace the >> ASUS >> board and Opteron. Maybe this will do the trick. I'm recompiling the >> kernel to include SMP. Let me know if anything here sounds like a bad >> idea. >> > > This sounds very much like the same board I'm using. I'm at work now, so I > can't check, but it is an MSI with an Intel 945 chipset and 4 PCI slots. > > I had some trouble getting the on-board SATA controller to work in native > mode. Turned out I needed to add 3 modules to my initrd: ata_piix, libata > and scsi_mod. Without these I could only boot with the controller in PATA > legacy mode which was incredibly slow: RAID1 rebuild of 40GB took 22 hours > with a load of ~25. Performance was so bad I almost brought the board > back. > > Now it's working incredibly reliable with a dual core D805 and 2 PVR-350's > and a Promise PATA controller (doing software RAID5) on the PCI bus. > > Stanley. > > > >> -- >> >> Rich Kadel >> Appeligo, Inc. >> (858) 433-1747 >> www.appeligo.com >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brad Barnett >> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 7:54 PM >> To: Discussion list for development of the IVTV driver >> Subject: Re: [ivtv-devel] System (practically) non-responsive after >> several >> hours...no clues >> >> On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:28:53 -0800 >> "Rich Kadel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> I may have to do that, but I'll have to swap out the CPU as well (and >>> maybe memory). Could be pricey, but I need the stability. If that's >>> what it takes. >>> >>> Any recommendations on an Intel motherboard, chipset, CPU combination >>> that supports 4 PCI slots? PVR-500 requires 3.3 volt support, as I >>> recall. >>> >> >> You couldn't swap that box with your desktop, for example, for a few >> days? >> Anything to debug... >> >>> -- >>> >>> Rich Kadel >>> Appeligo, Inc. >>> (858) 433-1747 >>> www.appeligo.com >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brad Barnett >>> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 4:13 PM >>> To: Discussion list for development of the IVTV driver >>> Subject: Re: [ivtv-devel] System (practically) non-responsive after >>> several hours...no clues >>> >>> >>> >>> DMA issues should only occur when the card is actually in use. >>> However, >>> I want to warn you, I had DMA issues with merely one PVR-500 and a >>> PVR-350! >>> >>> I had these problems with three different VIA chipsets, and they >>> utterly >>> vanished when I moved to an Intel chipset. VIA forums are rife with >>> complaints about said chips. >>> >>> With a box that has 4 tuner cards in it, trying a different motherboard >>> shouldn't be an issue. A swap out should take 10-15 minutes.... >>> >>> On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:50:45 -0800 >>> "Rich Kadel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ivtv-devel mailing list >> ivtv-devel@ivtvdriver.org >> http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-devel mailing list > ivtv-devel@ivtvdriver.org > http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel > _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list ivtv-devel@ivtvdriver.org http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel
