[mythtv-users] Stability problems when watching live tv

[Patrick Benton]

Pete,

I was lucky enough to be able to try the "world's most craptacular" 
(Apollo Bloody Monster GF4) video card and I had the same results.

The system doesn't crash under normal use, but I also had video capture 
stability problems with WinXP, so I'll give seti at home a try under linux 
and see what happens.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Patrick

On Monday, February 17, 2003, at 03:38 PM, Pierre-Olivier Bouchard 
wrote:

>
>> Here is a rundown of my current hardware:
>> ECS K7S5A motherboard
>> AMD XP 2100+
>> Sound Blaster 16 PCI
>> Voodoo Banshee AGP
>> 60G WD hard drive
>
>> I even tried updating my kernel to 2.4.20 with the lastest bttv
>> drivers, to no avail.  I LOVE MythTV when my hardware lets it run.
>
> I'd check the X drivers for the video card... try some other card for 
> a while if you can, it might help.
>
> Check system temperatures, the XP2100+ is quite a hot chip, if it gets 
> too hot the mobo might be shutting down itself to protect the CPU.
>
> Does it crash in regular usage? Does it crash if you run Seti at Home (or 
> similar, CPU-eating distributed program)
>
> That's what I'd start with.
>
>
> Pete
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