<p>As I don't know the tuner cards you are talking about it would help to know your territory, your tv reception coonection and transport type (atsc dvbt dvbc dvbs fios etc)</p>
<p>R</p>
<p>Please excuse brevity and pistakes this email was composed on a mobile phone.</p>
<p>Thanks and best regards,</p>
<p>Richard</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 2, 2011 10:03 PM, "James Pifer" <<a href="mailto:jep@obrien-pifer.com">jep@obrien-pifer.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> I've been running Myth since the 0.14 days. Couldn't live without it and<br>
> WAF is fairly high except for a couple nagging issues we've been<br>> having. <br>> <br>> 1) I'm running my mythbackend on a Dell Poweredge 1600SC. It<br>> occasionally locks up. It's totally random and I believe it's hardware<br>
> related. Plus, on top of that, one of the fans has gone bad. <br>> <br>> 2) Next is the bigger problem I've been fighting for a long time. We get<br>> a lot of jumps or bad video in spots, but not on every video. I've<br>
> tracked which inputs had the bad recordings, and it doesn't point to a<br>> specific card. I've ran with the unit open with a fan blowing on the<br>> cards, and with it closed running it's normally fans (until the one<br>
> failed above). So I've never figured out of the cards are bad or not.<br>> <br>> So I want to upgrade the hardware and at the same time get to a more<br>> current release of mythtv. I currently have three PCI cards, 150, 250,<br>
> 350, so finding a motherboard is doable, but limits me. <br>> <br>> I don't have HD cable, except for the free channels. My three separate<br>> frontends don't have enough power to do HD on their end, some I'm not in<br>
> a hurry to do it anyway. <br>> <br>> SO, finally my questions:<br>> <br>> Any specific motherboard/CPU suggestions with at least 3 PCI slots?<br>> <br>> Are there any low priced, non-PCI options for replacing my Hauppauge<br>
> cards? <br>> <br>> I also run a pretty powerful xen server and I know I could put<br>> mythbackend on there, but I can't use the PCI cards. I would have to<br>> replace the tuner cards. I could pass through some USB ports. I wouldn't<br>
> mind doing it this way at all if I could do it and still have at least<br>> three tuners.<br>> <br>> Any alternative tuner options?<br>> <br>> Any help is greatly appreciated. <br>> <br>> Thanks,<br>
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