[mythtv-users] nForce2 Chipset

DanM dan at milkcarton.com
Tue Oct 28 15:39:21 EST 2003


>
>  one more thing I don't think it really should be neccesary, but I
>  have the nvidia settings for connectedmonitor set to tv. That may not
>  be the exact setting, look through the nvidia help file. one of the
>  appendixes has all the tvout settings in it.
>
>  Also something I did change that would make a differance is that I
>  changed the horz and vert refresh rates. I set them to what the
>  nvidia file suggests. like 30-50 and 60
Done both of those.  What has actually prompted my desire to use the 
actual nvidia x drivers as opposed to the open source ones is when I 
boot the pc, I've got the svid cable connected to the tv, I see 
everything just fine, but when x starts, it looks like its not sending 
out the right refresh rates for the tv to handle.  I set the horz and 
vert refresh rates to the ones suggested and played around with it a 
lot.  I'm hoping that the nvidia drivers will actually make this work right.
>
> > What would disabling APIC in the bios do? Heck, what does the APIC
> > control?
>  well the part that seems to be giving people problems it the APIC-IO
>  and I'm not deep enough to explain exactly what all that does, but
>  from what I can tell the asus boards are bad about locking up if APIC
>  is enabled. I have had no problems with my chaintek board. I haven't
>  heard of anyone else using the AOpen, so I don't know about that.
I'll try your suggestions tonight, if that doesn't work I'll disable 
apic and see if that fixes anything.  Funny thing is, I was about to buy 
the chaintech board you have, but didn't notice it until after my order 
had already shipped so I couldn't switch from the aopen to the chaintech.

A word of caution to anyone considuring uATX boards: I wouldn't really 
recommend the AOpen MK79G-N to anyone.  Besides the engrish bios, and 
minimal documentation; its a real pain in the butt to configure the cpu 
and memory timings as it won't let you configure them independantly. 

Which case did you get?  I got the ATC-610.  Its a pimpin case.

thanks for your help!
-dan



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