[mythtv-users] Diskless EPIA w/PVR-350 (was: Problems with theVIAKM400 chipset)

[Neil Davidson]

After reading the discussion about using an EPIA based system as a front end
I did a little digging. I found the forums at http://linpvr.org/ to be very
useful.

There is a fan less case designed for the EPIA-M10000, I don't know if the
M9000 would work with it or not (perhaps a quick email to the manufacturers
would be an idea).

http://www.scythe.co.jp/en/cooler/epia.htm

This case with a M10000 booting over the network coupled with the biggest
LCD monitor I can find is what I have planned for my bedroom. Silent, low
power and small.

hope this is of use to you.

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org]On Behalf Of Simon Kenyon
Sent: 09 June 2004 17:07
To: 'Discussion about mythtv'
Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Diskless EPIA w/PVR-350 (was: Problems with
theVIAKM400 chipset)


I have an EPIA-m9000 in a travla 137. ok, so I have a disk and a dvd in
there, but even taking that into account it is far from silent. The cpu fan
makes a hell of a din. As for the case fan. They are both way too loud for
me and I'm really rather deaf.

So the question is; how did you make it silent? I did have a homebuilt case
with no fans at all (ZALMAN VGA heatsink on the CPU), but it got too hot for
my liking. Please, please, please tell me the secret!

Regards
--
simon

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Jarod C. Wilson
> Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 3:33 AM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Diskless EPIA w/PVR-350 (was:
> Problems with theVIA KM400 chipset)
>
> On Jun 5, 2004, at 4:24 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote:
>
> > ...is getting replaced as my secondary Myth box by an EPIA
> M10000 in a
> > Travla C137 today. I'm gunning for diskless boot, a PVR-350 for
> > output, and total silence...
>
> And now I've more or less got it. A few minor issues I still
> have to work out, but I'm running a diskless EPIA M10000
> system feeding video out a PVR-350, finally got around to
> trying the ivtvdev X driver (big improvement for mplayer when
> using -vo x11 and stability seems better so far). The system
> is completely diskless, the PXE boot ROM hits my dhcp server,
> which tells it where the PXE stuff is, then initrd and the
> kernel are downloaded via tftp, and the system starts booting
> Fedora Core 1 off an NFS share. Kick-ass.
>
> --
> Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE
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