[mythtv-users] Thanks for the PVR-350 donation!

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Tuesday 06 April 2004 14:56, bishop wrote:
> Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> > On Tuesday 06 April 2004 04:55, Axel Thimm wrote:
> >>Unfortunately my ALi chipset based PC dies on it, like it did with
> >>the bttv some time ago [ALi magik 1 chipset PCI bus latency bug
> >> :(], so I'll have to upgrade some components to be able to use it.
> >
> > I feel your pain.  I've had to learn the hard way which chipsets to
> > avoid.  A few years ago I learned to stay away from VIA chipsets
> > when I got a VIA-based mobo that could only cache 128MB of RAM.  It
> > took me a long time to figure out why my PC was noticeably slower
> > after upgrading to 256MB or RAM -- the cache got disabled because
> > it couldn't handle that much RAM.
> >
> > My next mobo (I ended up frying that one), which is in my Myth box
> > now, has an ALi chipset.  I have 60GB of unusable space on my new
> > Seagate 200GB HD because the broken ALi IDE chipset won't support
> > >137GB, even though I flashed the BIOS with an update that was
> > supposed to enable that support.
> >
> > I think from now on I'm going to stick with nForce, IBM or Intel.
>
> JAC,
>
> Doesn't nForce also have the DMA issues of the Via set?
>
> I could swear that I saw a recent nForce issue here that smelled like
> the classic kt133 DMA issue.
>
> It may be the cheap drugs talking (caffeine, sugar, etc).
>
>   - bish

Hmmm... the only nForce issues I'm aware of are the APIC issue and the 
fact that for certain features you need 3rd-party or binary drivers, 
and these issues are more in the realm of Linux support rather than 
buggy (or poorly designed) hardware.

-JAC