[mythtv-users] HDTV success

[David Brodbeck]

Mark Chang wrote:
> On 11/17/06, Nathan Harris <nharris at eoimaging.com> wrote:
>   
>> Sound great Mark!  I am also interested in using the Dell E521.  How is
>> the fan noise?
>>     
>
> As a previous post I made, I would NOT recommend the E521. There are
> some serious issues regarding the kernel handling of USB -- in
> particular, something about power and initialization of the USB
> devices on the nForce 430 chipset is broken, making it so that USB
> devices just stop working randomly. Very uncool.
>   

If you're stuck with one, you could just throw in a USB PCI card. 
They're pretty cheap.  We did this at work with a Dell system that had
USB ports that just would not work.