[mythtv-users] First Time User :: Problem with Hauppauge PVR-500 (System Reboots)

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Sat Jul 19 15:44:04 UTC 2008


On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Param Singh <mithu.singh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi :
>
> Last week I installed mythtv on ubuntu, and have been banging my head
> on this problem thinking that I would be able to solve it by RTFM's. I
> have tried every possible step by now (learned quite a lot about linux
> internals) and as a last resort asking for help on this mailing list.
>
> All the cards are being recognized by the system and I am able to
> setup Mythtv-Backend ( Channel Setup ) without any problems; However
> when I play LIVE-TV, the computer reboots immediately ( within seconds
> ). Since, its an immediate reboot, I doubt if it could be a heat
> issue. I used LSPCI command and found that the interrupts for nvidia
> card and tv-tuner were clashing, so I changed the PCI slot of
> Hauppauge TV Tuner - but no luck :-p
>
> I am posting all the relevant system details below (overall hardware,
> dmesg, lspci, lshw), would appreciate any suggestions that would help
> in fixing this problem.
>
> Thanks in Advance,
>
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>
>   System Setup
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>
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150269
> * Mother Board (Dragon Soyo P4x400 Lite) -

This is your problem. VIA chip sets and hauppage cards do not always
work. Get a nVidia based board.

John


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