[mythtv-users] Motherboards

[Robert]

Nick Bright wrote:
> So I couldn't resist Jeff Walther's post about the NSK-2400 at Fry's and 
> ordered one. Stoopid me for not paying attention to the fact that it 
> only supports MicroATX motherboards!
> 
> So, now I'm looking around at motherboards (since my current MythBox has 
> a full ATX).
> 
> I noticed these two units at Newegg and I'm curious if anybody has tried 
> to use this particular chipset, and if so to what degree of success?
> 
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813500004
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813500006
> 
> They are very enticing because they have an onboard coaxial S/PDIF 
> output *and* an HDMI output with GeForce 7100 or 7150 video chip 
> respectively!
> 
> This is a perfect fit for my two PVR-150's and soon to be received 
> HDHomeRun :)
> 
> So, has anyone tried linux/myth with this chipset?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 

I too have something similar with a NVIDIA® GeForce 7100 / nForce 630i 
MCP chipset.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-098-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=326&name=Gigabyte%20GA-73PVM-S2H%20GeForce%207100%20Micro-ATX%20(Socket%20775)%20PCI-Express%20DDR2%20Motherboard

I must say overall I'm not that impressed.

I've had problems with "noisy" audio, which I think I've now got sorted.

I had to upgrade to the latest kernel to get the onboard networking to 
work at all and even then it's crashed a number of times while doing 
large data transfers (backups) across the network - this manifests 
itsself as the network stops working and the lights on the port flash 
like crazy.  Usually I can log in locally, then shutdown cleanly and 
reboot and it's all fine again.  Only a reboot seems to fix this problem 
- I've tried reloading modules, etc.  This hasn't happened for a while, 
but thats because I've been careful not to do large network transfers! 
I need to see if the problem still exits, but I don't want to crash my box.

Occasionally the remote on my TT-S1501 DVB-S card stops working with 
some i2c transfer error which seems to reuqire a reboot to fix as well 
(not sure if this is motherboard related or not tbh).

I've not tried the SPDIF audio out.  But I have the HDMI.  Picture is 
ok, a lot of overscan with my TV.  And I've not managed to get audio 
over HDMI in either Linux or Windows.

Other than that (!) it seems ok.  Graphics perfomance seems good and 
there are no fans on the motherboard - main reason I bought that 
particular board was because it was one of the few that had onboard 
NVIDIA graphics and two PCI slots.

Hope this helps!

Robert.