On 4/23/07, Guðlaugur Jóhannesson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 23 April 2007 19:21:35 David Rees wrote: > > I'm having problems which look identical to the issues reported at > > this thread with a PVR-350: > > > > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/ivtv/devel/35311 > > > > I have 2 PVR-250s in my system (Sempron 3000, VIA K8T800 chipset, 1GB > > RAM, single SATA drive, Nvidia FX5200 video card) running FC6 with > > latest updates. > > I had similar problems with my MythTV box, although the problem mostly > occurred when I was transcoding, hence under heavy CPU and disk use. I > upgraded the MB from a via chipset to a nvidia chipset and the problem > vanished. There have been issues with ivtv and via chipsets. Don't know if > your particular one is affected.
Yes, I am well aware of the issues with Via chipsets and capture cards. But the fact that at one point in time hangs used to be rare and the fact that others have reported similar behavior in that crashes seem to have gotten more frequent leads me to believe that while Via chipsets are indeed a factor in instability, may not be the root cause of the instability. Not to mention that I can't afford to throw hardware at the problem. If I were to throw hardware at the problem I would be inclined to purchase a PVR-500 which appears to be much less susceptible to the issue but seems to have other various issues. If I were to replace the mobo, I should seriously consider upgrading to Socket AM2 from 739 so that I can use the latest CPUs/memory but of course then I'd have to purchase a new CPU and memory. -Dave _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
