[mythtv-users] Motherboards

[Nick Bright]

Robert wrote:
> Nick Bright wrote:
>   
>> So I couldn't resist Jeff Walther's post about the NSK-2400 at Fry's and 
>> ordered one. Stoopid me for not paying attention to the fact that it 
>> only supports MicroATX motherboards!
>>
>> So, now I'm looking around at motherboards (since my current MythBox has 
>> a full ATX).
>>
>> I noticed these two units at Newegg and I'm curious if anybody has tried 
>> to use this particular chipset, and if so to what degree of success?
>>
>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813500004
>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813500006
>>
>> They are very enticing because they have an onboard coaxial S/PDIF 
>> output *and* an HDMI output with GeForce 7100 or 7150 video chip 
>> respectively!
>>
>> This is a perfect fit for my two PVR-150's and soon to be received 
>> HDHomeRun :)
>>
>> So, has anyone tried linux/myth with this chipset?
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>>     
>
> I too have something similar with a NVIDIA® GeForce 7100 / nForce 630i 
> MCP chipset.
>
> http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-098-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=326&name=Gigabyte%20GA-73PVM-S2H%20GeForce%207100%20Micro-ATX%20(Socket%20775)%20PCI-Express%20DDR2%20Motherboard
>
> I must say overall I'm not that impressed.
>
> I've had problems with "noisy" audio, which I think I've now got sorted.
>
> I had to upgrade to the latest kernel to get the onboard networking to 
> work at all and even then it's crashed a number of times while doing 
> large data transfers (backups) across the network - this manifests 
> itsself as the network stops working and the lights on the port flash 
> like crazy.  Usually I can log in locally, then shutdown cleanly and 
> reboot and it's all fine again.  Only a reboot seems to fix this problem 
> - I've tried reloading modules, etc.  This hasn't happened for a while, 
> but thats because I've been careful not to do large network transfers! 
> I need to see if the problem still exits, but I don't want to crash my box.
>
> Occasionally the remote on my TT-S1501 DVB-S card stops working with 
> some i2c transfer error which seems to reuqire a reboot to fix as well 
> (not sure if this is motherboard related or not tbh).
>
> I've not tried the SPDIF audio out.  But I have the HDMI.  Picture is 
> ok, a lot of overscan with my TV.  And I've not managed to get audio 
> over HDMI in either Linux or Windows.
>
> Other than that (!) it seems ok.  Graphics perfomance seems good and 
> there are no fans on the motherboard - main reason I bought that 
> particular board was because it was one of the few that had onboard 
> NVIDIA graphics and two PCI slots.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Robert.
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Thanks for the feedback Robert, it sounds like this may be more buggy 
than I want to deal with. I think maybe I'll stick with an Intel chipset!

 - Nick