[mythtv-users] is my processor to blame? (lockups, problems with FF and REW)

[Yan-Fa Li]

Aaron Aguilar wrote:
> First off thanks so much to this list and to Jared for helping me set
> up a working mythtv box.  My setup:
> 
> AMD Duron 650Mhz
> 384mb RAM
> Samsung 160GB HDD
> FX5200
> Hauppauge PVR250
> FC3 2.6.10kernel
> 

Ugh.  It could be so many things.  Are you running a VIA chipset ?  Have 
you checked the Capacitors on your board lately and are they leaking 
(Brown Goo) ?  Do you have a decent power supply ?  Have you checked the 
RAM lately with Memtest86 ?

So many ways your system could be borked.  It's possible you are 
triggering some weird race condition in myth due to a low-end cpu, but 
apparently people have run myth on PIIs so I doubt it.  That's a fairly 
slow piece of gear these days.  $99 bucks gets you a Sempron 2200 with 
motherboard if you shop around.

I have myth running on a P3 933 quite well as a front end.  Last time I 
had problems with the IVTV and a system it was because I had bad 
capacitors.  Pulled it all and replaced it with a nforce2/sempron. 
Since then I fixed the bad caps on the old board and it runs reliably as 
a windows box.  Haven't tested mythtv on it again.

Good luck,

Yan