[mythtv-users] OT: Hardware failure

[Paul.Buchanan at thomson.com]

>What about it being the "backend" -- I'm looking at the newer MBOs and 
>seeing only 2 PCI slots and that isn't anywhere near enough if one
wants
>to handle 10+ channels (NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, FNN, SciFi, AMC, HIS, DIS, 
>Animal Planet).  I know one can't handle them all at the same time but 
>say one wanted to handle 3-5 shows in the same time slot if one had the

>input cards doing the heavy lifting.  At how many channels do you max
out 
>the PCI bus?  And are there any cards using higher bandwidths ( e.g.
PCIe 
>x16 or x32)?.

The Hauppauge cards with onboard MPEG-2 encoders (PVR-150, PVR-250,
PVR-500) require the newer PCI signaling voltages and bus-mastered
slots.
I tried running my PVR-250 on a celeron 300 board with no luck due to
older PCI slots.  This is likely to affect your Pentium 75 board, and 
would result in the board being a non-starter for a backend.