[mythtv-users] Asus A7V8X-X and Hauppague 500 PVR compatablilty - just looking for a possible answer

[Stephen Kitchener]

On Monday 06 Feb 2006 23:17, Jerry Rubinow wrote:
> On 2/6/06, Stephen Kitchener <stephen at g6dzj.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Monday 06 Feb 2006 22:43, Jan Ophey wrote:
> > > Stephen Kitchener schrieb:
> > > > Hi List,
> > > >
> > > > I have just returned my 3rd Hauppauge 500 MCE Card, they all had the
> > > > same fault, one (The same tuner on each), not working at all.
> > > >
> > > > A thought has occurred, could it be that the motherboard is itself
> > > > making the PVR card non-functional, ie the act of actually using the
> > > > card in the mobo, kills one tuner, I guess that this is a really
> > > > remote possibility but I thought that I would ask the question,
> > > > especially if there are users on mythtv using the same
> > > > motherboard/PVR card combination.
> > >
> > > I use 2 PVR350 on an ASUS A7V800 Mainboard with a Pentium4 Prescott
> > > 3.2GHz CPU.
> > > If I enable Hyperthreading in the BIOS the PVRs start to go bad after
> > > about 3-5 minutes (even with Windows + latest Hauppauge-drivers)
> > > Seems like DMA transfers are really weird on this board.
> > >
> > > I disabled Hyperthreading and the box now stays up for up to 3 weeks
> > > with no problem at all.
> > >
> > > maybe you are running into a similar issue.
> >
> > I don't think so - the one channel is immediately dead and when I return
> > it to the suppliers its still broken, so the breakage is permanent,
> >
> > steve.
>
> I'm running a PVR-500 on an A7N8X-X without any problems.  Not sure if
> that means much considering it uses nvidia nForce2 instead of Via
> chipsets.  Have you tried disabling in BIOS all ports and onboard
> devices, unplugging all cards, only leaving enabled the ones you'd
> need to test the board?

This is difficult to test, I would need another board (a 4th one) first...not 
sure that the supplier would appreciate another broken board.....this is 
assuming that the breakage was the fault of the mobo and not that I've been 
extremely unlucky....a fact ( my bad luck) that I have reported to Hauppauge 
to let them know that I have had 3 bad boards and perhaps that they might 
like to look into it...

My question about the Asus and the Hauppauge, was just speculation as to the 
cause of the fault.

Steve

>
> -Jerry
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