[mythtv-users] Crystal HD

[Fred Squires]

>> The computer has Intel video with 2
>> free mPCIe slots and the intel video just isn't handling HD video anymore.
>> Is there a list of computers/boards these work with so I can know before I
>> buy?
>
> Any computer with a free mini pcie slot (that doesn't have a cracked
> out bios). My thinkpad, for example, has both an unused full-sized
> mini pice slot and an unused half-height mini pcie slot, but I had to
> throw a bcm970015 crystalhd card in the full-sized slot sans-screws to
> hold it in place (its held in place by the keyboard right now), as the
> thinkpad bios is, well, kinda crap. I think the mini pcie slot may be
> reserved for "blessed" communications modules, like a wwan card or
> bluetooth or something. Oh. Hrm. That actually reminds me. The ASRock
> ION330 HT-BD box I've got wouldn't boot w/a crystalhd card in it, but
> I think that may have been due to the bios' setting for "enable
> onboard wifi", which was actually a mini pcie card. I've yet to first
> try disabling that in the bios, *then* installing a crystalhd card...
> Scared ya off yet? ;) Actually, I think Logic Supply does have a list
> of systems/boards they've verified the card to work in though.

There's a list of compatible motherboards about halfway down this page:
http://www.logicsupply.com/products/bcm970015