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 ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel
