[mythtv-users] Tuning Woes

Mike Wafkowski mikeyw at sohogurus.net
Sat Dec 17 14:05:47 EST 2005


Not to get into cat fight 8^) but the specs you quoted would be easily
handled by a decent 250. The X-Factor here though is that no PSU actually
puts out the power it's rated at. You can google around to verify that.

I have two systems currently runnng quite happily with 250 W. They are
clones of each other

Specs are Mobile Celeron 1.7 running at 2.8 GHz, two 256 meg ram sticks,
Three HD's (20, 80 and 160 gig) 128 meg mx440 agp video, DVD/CD cutter,
two tuner Cards, Firewire card, FD, .

No offense, but I think my two PVR systems probably "outsuck" the system
you're specing. Which doesn't at all rule out that your PS is not providing
enough juice, but in practice should.

Peace,
MRW

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kichigai Mentat" <kichigai at comcast.net>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2005 1:13 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Tuning Woes


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> On Dec 16, 2005, at 13.00, Brian Bosch wrote:
>
> > On 12/16/05, Mike Wafkowski <mikeyw at sohogurus.net> wrote:
> >> I believe (and my experience is) that flaky PSUs can produce an
> >> amazing
> >> number of hard to track problems. It also seems that most of us
> >> end up
> >> checkng it out last or almost last. Don't just think about
> >> underpowered,
> >> think flaky.
> While I am taking your advice rather seriously, I think I'm going to
> stick with underpowered. After looking at the PSU, it's only rated to
> about 250 Watts. Something tells me that an AMD Athlon 850 MHz with
> 256 MB of RAM, 10/100 Mib NIC, 56k Modem (I plan to remove this), PCI
> VGA card, Sound card, and a Hauppauge PVR-150 might draw a little
> more power than 250 watts.
>
> No offense.
> >
> > Agreed, that and flaky RAM have bitten me in the past.  All kinds of
> > strange errors cropped up in both cases, and I wasted a lot of time
> > troubleshooting...
> I don't think the RAM is the problem here, but I'll keep that in mind.
>
> Thank you both for the advice.
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