It seems my disk drive was the victim, not the perpetrator. I rebuilt my FE<br>with MythDora on another disk drive and it started crashing again (screen<br>corruption and subsequent system lockups).<br><br>I had to send back my FE motherboard for a warranty replacement, so I'll
<br>be watching shows on the 17" vga monitor until it gets back, unless...<br><br>Dr. Frankenstein (me) got the bright idea that I have an old Gigabyte <br>GA7-DX motherboard with an Athlon 2600 cpu, a mini-tower case and
<br>a spare power supply (with a noisy fan) laying around. I thought I'd put<br>them all together with 512MB of PC2100 ram and a "retired, but working"<br>10GB Quantum PATA drive and the original Nvidia 2MX AGP 4x video
<br>card with S-Video support.<br><br>I got it all working and loaded MythDora 4 using the DVD drive from the <br>"brainless" FE system using the default partitioning. But...<br><br>When I go into the recordings listing, it takes an interminable time to
<br>respond to the next command, even from the keyboard I still have <br>attached. I noticed that the preview for the currently selected recording<br>doesn't show and if I try to watch the recordings, I get a black screen
<br>for something like 30 - 60 seconds (maybe more) and then I'm back in the<br>recordings menu.<br><br>So, is my supposition correct that, while the rest of the system is probably<br>ok for watching SD over S-Video, I need to get a newer video card? If so,
<br>I'm thinking I should go for a PCI card rather than an AGP card, for future <br>flexibility. Is a PCI GeForce FX 5200 with 128MB good enough? Should I <br>go up to a 256MB GeForce 6200?<br><br>OT1H, I may just keep my $$ and wait for the motherboard (or more likely
<br>its replacement) to come back from the surgeon and OTOH, I kinda like the<br>idea of having another FE.<br><br>What do you folks advise, as far as whether the AGP card is inadequate to <br>the task and if so, why the 5200 or the 6200 is the better replacement?
<br><br>Craig.<br>