[mythtv-users] Spontaneous Reboot when second tuner starts recording!

Nick knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Fri Jul 14 19:52:54 UTC 2006


On 14/07/06, John Pierce <john.j35 at gmail.com> wrote:

<snip>

> During live tv, if the second tuner starts a scheduled recording the
> system will just spontaneously reboot.  When the system is completely
> rebooted the recording will continue with the recording and to get the
> complete recording I must cat together the two small pieces.

<snip>

> Custom built:
> Biostar M7VIT Pro Ver 1.1
> AMD Athlon XP 2000
> 1 Gigabyte Memory
> 320 Gb Disc Space (1 maxtor, 1 seagate) IDE interface
> ATI Radeon 9000 AGP (128 Mb Ram)
> Aureal Semiconductor AU8810 Vortex PCI Sound Card
> Linksys NC100 Fast Ethernet Card
>
> The tuner inputs are coming in on the two composite in sets of the PVR
> 500 MCE, External cable stb's from comcast.  Both stb's connected to
> the computer through the serial ports for channel changing capability.

<snip>

> Output from lspci:
>
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400/KT600 AGP] Host Bridge
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 PCI Bridge

<snip>

You might want to take a look at the following page, detailing
possible problems (and some suggested resolutions) when using a PVR
card with a VIA-based motherboard. Spontaneous rebooting is one of the
signs:

http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Via_motherboard_problems

Nick

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