[mythtv-users] k7S5A board, do XP-M cpus work?

Bob spam at homeurl.co.uk
Tue Mar 28 05:24:50 UTC 2006


Kurt wrote:
> Thanks for the previous response on kernels, MythTV list.  Taking a look at 
> what hardware I have available, I see that I have a K7S5A motherboard that 
> can have its bios flashed to accept an XP-2600 cpu, and I can upgrade to 
> 2x512 MB 266DDR.
> 
> I have the board, a Plextor TV402U USB 2.0 tuner, and a case (I have the box 
> working with a 1.2 GHz Duron and 192 MB of SDRam).  I'll have to buy the cpu 
> and memory (and a USB 2.0 card) for this planned backend.  I may have one 512 
> MB stick available, so it may only be one 512 MB stick I'll be buying. Not 
> worried about TV-out at this point, I have a few options available to me.
> 
> Looking at Pricewatch, the only XP-2600, XP-2500, XP-2400 cpus I see that are 
> reasonable (below $100) seem to be the mobile XP-M-2600 and lower speed 
> mobile cpus.  Can this board or any desktop  motherboard use an XP-M cpu 
> without problems, will I run into problems, or it won't work at all, etc.
> 
> My other option seems to be a Duron 1.8 GHz cpu instead of the XP-M-2600.  Am 
> I stuck with this Duron if the XP-M (mobile) version doesn't work?
> 
> I'll be using Debian Sarge (if it works, MythTV appears to have hit either 
> Sarge or backports in the last week), with a 2.6.11-k7 or later kernel, or if 
> Sarge is no good I'll go to unstable with the latest unstable kernel.
> 
> Does everyone's hands start to sweat and shake when the possiblity of actually 
> getting a MythTV setup working enters the realm of possibility?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Kurt.

Yes, see
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/179726#179726
and
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/163376#163376
HTH HAND


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