[mythtv-users] Nehemiah Performance

Curtis Stanford curtis at stanfordcomputing.com
Sat Sep 6 14:22:30 EDT 2003


For me, this problem was an inadequate power supply. My first case had a 
crappy 55W power supply and I was having problems all over the place. 
Replaced with a 100W and all is perfect now.

On September 6, 2003 04:52 am, Tako Schotanus wrote:
> Ok, I had already put the motherboard ground wire in and my BIOS is
> already the latest version but the capacitor is maybe something to try
> still.
> What did work for me once was connecting the case to the ground of a
> wall socket, but it only worked if the wire was very short and my stereo
> and tv set are many meters away from the nearest grounded socket.
>
> Adrian Burden wrote:
> > I have been all over this.
> > I did the ground, the capacitor and the bios update to solve the problem.
> >
> > I also noticed that if I did not use 256mb, I had problems with the
> > network. Strange but true. I did an article on my site.
> > http://www.onegeeksopinion.com/mt/archives/000021.php
> >
> > cheers,,,
> >
> > Tako Schotanus wrote:
> >> Isaac Richards wrote:
> >>> On Thursday 04 September 2003 04:26 pm, Tako Schotanus wrote:
> >>>>> Yeah, that's what I'm getting as well.  No idea how to fix it, as
> >>>>> I see
> >>>>> the exact same thing in VeXP..
> >>>>
> >>>> You do? If I use VeXP to watch prerecorded programs everything looks
> >>>> fine. (except that the program seems very flaky, it hangs often, just
> >>>> moving the focus out of the main window will do that for example).
> >>>
> >>> I still get it with VeXP, but could you try current CVS myth?  I
> >>> believe I've fixed the problem.  It's completely gone here, at
> >>> least.  The OSD should look quite a bit nicer, too, though still B&W.
> >>
> >> Works like a charm! No problems whatsoever.
> >> And the OSD looks fine to me ;-)
> >>
> >> Although I now get a slight stutter when the OSD pops up and fades
> >> away (cpu jumps to 40% for a sec), but nothing major.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> -Tako
> >>
> >> PS: Isaac, did you ever had any problems with your Nehemiah-based
> >> system not wanting to boot if you didn't have a monitor attached
> >> (only TV out for example)? Some say it's some kind of grounding
> >> problem but I haven't found a solution yet that worked for me. It's
> >> the last thing that prevents me from moving my MythTV system off my
> >> "workbench" and into my HT set.
> >>
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