On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Jim Reith wrote:
> At 01:48 PM 8/15/2005, you wrote:
> >Mr. Myth wrote:
> >
> >>I have ( had ) two PVR-250's that were working great with 0.3.6w from Axel.
> >>
> >>I purchased a PVR-500 as a replacement because I needed the extra
> >>slot.  I tried it with 0.3.6w but had many issues getting both tuners to
> >>work.  I had read the 0.3.7<X> series was looking good so I thought I
> >>would try it.
> >>
> >>So, now I am running 0.3.7d from Axel and am having a new problem.
> >>After about 5-7 minutes of recording my computer will reboot.  I don't
> >>get anything regarding a panic in the logs.  I just hear the bios beep
> >>and can watch it reboot.  If I am not recording, the box is completely 
> >>stable.
> >>
> >
> >I have a motherboard that my pvr500 cards will not work in, they do this
> >exact behavior, reboot the machine spontaneously.  Others have reported
> >the same findings, some motherboards can't handle the cards, also the
> >minimum system requirements may have something more detailed than the
> >normal cards I *think*, someone mentioned something about that.  So that
> >may help figure this out, does the windows driver work  on these systems,
> >someone who had not been able to get it working found it the same in
> >windows I think, again not fully sure since been awhile since this issue
> >was visited.
>
> Is it possible that it's a low voltage situation? That the power supply
...

IIRC, VIA chipsets have a DMA-related problem that seems to occur most
often with some TV cards during disk i/o.  for some boards, there may be
a newer bios that may help.

-brendan


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