[mythtv-users] Motherboard without DMA issues?

[Jarod Wilson]

On Aug 3, 2004, at 20:23, BP wrote:

> William wrote:
>>> Can anyone recommend a modern motherboard, preferably with 6 PCI 
>>> slots and built in LAN?
>
>> Any board built on a nVidia chipset will work fine. Also any Intel 
>> based
>> board will work. With that in mind, you just need to decide on your 
>> form
>> factor.
> I couldn't disagree more about the nVidia chipset.  I had nothing but 
> problems.  Only way I could record with my PVR250 was to underclock 
> the memory and disable APIC, ACPI, APM and not run Athcool.

Athcool is a know offender with nForce2 boards. My nForce2 board 
(Chaintech 7NIF2) has been rock-solid since the day I got it (nearly a 
year ago now). I highly recommend nForce2 boards, there are just a few 
precautions you have to take.

> On the other hand, with all the same hardware except the motherboard, 
> I have everything enabled and am running at full speed with a VIA 
> KM400 chipset.

I have one of these boards also (MSI KM4M-L). Those work too, but the 
onboard video is relatively crappy. The onboard features of the nForce2 
are better, primarily based on video. I ended up putting an AGP GF4MX 
on my KM400 board.

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE
jcw at wilsonet.com

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