[mythtv-users] 2 WinTV cards on Asus w/ VIA chipset

Jim Valavanis jimvman at comcast.net
Tue May 25 22:42:37 EDT 2004



Tom Craddock wrote:

>Jim,
>
>What revision is the MCE card?  If it's the 'Rosalyn' board, then it wont
>work with KnoppMyth as ivtv doesn't support is.  Heres a link to a forum
>post in the SHSPVR IvyTV forums.
>
>http://www.shspvr.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4927
>
>HTH.
>
>Tom
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Scott Francis [mailto:scott.francis at newisys.com] 
>Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 5:01 PM
>To: Discussion about mythtv
>Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] 2 WinTV cards on Asus w/ VIA chipset
>
>Have you tried switching the ide slots that things are plugged into?
>
>Sorry, but that's the only thing I can think of.  
>
>Scott
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
>[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org]On Behalf Of Jim Valavanis
>Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 3:31 PM
>To: Discussion about mythtv
>Subject: [mythtv-users] 2 WinTV cards on Asus w/ VIA chipset
>
>
>Hello again everybody,
>
>I currently have an ASUS ASU-A7V8X-X with a WinTV 250 card and an NVIDIA 
>GX440 and have been trying to install the new PVR-250MCE from ebay.  I 
>am aware of issues with the VIA chipset motherboards.  I'm running 
>knoppmyth 4.2. The system freezes or hangs when the card is being 
>recognized at bootup, after an IRQ sharing message.  No matter what I 
>set the IRQ to, in the BIOS, on that PCI slot with the PVR250MCE, it 
>seems to always share the IRQ with the NVIDIA card and always hang. 
> I've tried passing some boot parameters like "noacpi" but the same 
>thing happens.  I've tried many different IRQ settings for each PCI 
>slot, and moved the card around but still, it hangs.
>I can boot into single user mode without a problem.
>Any ideas on how to get the PVR-250MCE along with the WinTV250 to work 
>together in this system?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jim
>
>
>
>
>  
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OK now I'm not certain this is a PVR-250MCE.  On the card itself is 
printed....
Hauppauge NTSC/NTSC-J 32552   Rev B123
And I see the CONEXANT MPEG II A/V encoder chip CX23416-12.

 From that link you sent 
http://ivtv.writeme.ch/tiki-index.php?page=SupportedHardware   I see on 
the bottom that the Conexant Blackbird Design has that chip and is known 
NOT to work.  
Is this that type of card?

I received no documentation with the card just itself in static bag.

Jim




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