[mythtv-users] First Time User :: Problem with Hauppauge PVR-500 (System Reboots)

[John Drescher]

On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Param Singh <mithu.singh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150269
>>> * Mother Board (Dragon Soyo P4x400 Lite) -
>>
>> This is your problem. VIA chip sets and hauppage cards do not always
>> work. Get a nVidia based board.
>>
>> John
>
> Thanks for your quick reply,
>
> I have another windoz box with Asus K8V-SE motherboard, and after
> reading your email I thought about swapping mobo with my mythtv box.
> But then I read ...
>
> "K8V-SE is a great merge of the latest AMD Sempron CPU and VIA's
> K8T800 chipset to juice up your system."
>
> So that's no-good either, as its also using VIA chipset ?
>
You may be lucky. Its not that all VIA boards will cause this issue
but its more likely.  Both the Conexant chip on the hauppage and the
VIA motherboard have problematic dma implementations and when you put
them together you can get lockups or other dma related problems.

John