Wed night I added a Vbox Cat's Eye 150 card, 320GB SATA HD, and 7600GS agp video card to my HTPC (specs below). Everything seemed to be fine, but Thursday night when it started to record both Grey's Anatomy and Supernatural in high def, it went into a constant reboot loop. I was finally able to get beyond tv to stop, checked irq's and found that the vbox was sharing with the PVR500, so I disabled the Vbox, tried starting BTV, and it was ok.
Currently it is:
Uneed X11 case with VFD/Ir module and Rev2 HD cage
SeaSonic S12-380 PSU
Abit NF7-S v2 nForce2 MB (full ATX) with Soundstorm
AMD XP-Mobile, 2400+, with Thermalright SI-97 heatsink & 92mm pano fan
2 x 512MB PC3200 Kingston Value DDR RAM
Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS Silent Pipe AGP card (NEW - returnable)
NEC 3500 DVD burner
Seagate 120 GB hard drive (for OS)
Seagate 300 GB hard drive (for video)
Seagate 320 GB SATA hard drive (for video NEW)
Mitsumi Floppy Drive with builtin USB2.0 Card Reader
Hauppauge PVR150MCE & PVR500MCE (analog TV)
DVICO FusionHDTV5 Lite (digital TV)
VBOX Cat's EYE DTA-150 (digital TV NEW - returnalbe)
Logitec wireless mouse/keyboard
D-Link USB wireless G adaptor
Firefly mini
Westinghouse 32" LDC with DVI input
XP Pro SP2, Beyond TV 4.4, Beyond Media, Nvidia Purevideo Decoder.
What I'm wondering/thinking about is swaping out the motherboard/cpu/video card with a newer ones - either a 939 or AM2 (but leaning towards 939 due to being able to get quiter cup coolers), a dual core cpu, and a PCIe video card, probably a 7600GT. I'm not upto date on the benifets of the new motherboards.
I'm also open to changing out my tuner cards. The problem I had was too many things sharing IRQ's so was wondering if changing my tuner cards would solve that.
Thoughts/suggestions?
Thanks!
Mike
Currently it is:
Uneed X11 case with VFD/Ir module and Rev2 HD cage
SeaSonic S12-380 PSU
Abit NF7-S v2 nForce2 MB (full ATX) with Soundstorm
AMD XP-Mobile, 2400+, with Thermalright SI-97 heatsink & 92mm pano fan
2 x 512MB PC3200 Kingston Value DDR RAM
Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS Silent Pipe AGP card (NEW - returnable)
NEC 3500 DVD burner
Seagate 120 GB hard drive (for OS)
Seagate 300 GB hard drive (for video)
Seagate 320 GB SATA hard drive (for video NEW)
Mitsumi Floppy Drive with builtin USB2.0 Card Reader
Hauppauge PVR150MCE & PVR500MCE (analog TV)
DVICO FusionHDTV5 Lite (digital TV)
VBOX Cat's EYE DTA-150 (digital TV NEW - returnalbe)
Logitec wireless mouse/keyboard
D-Link USB wireless G adaptor
Firefly mini
Westinghouse 32" LDC with DVI input
XP Pro SP2, Beyond TV 4.4, Beyond Media, Nvidia Purevideo Decoder.
What I'm wondering/thinking about is swaping out the motherboard/cpu/video card with a newer ones - either a 939 or AM2 (but leaning towards 939 due to being able to get quiter cup coolers), a dual core cpu, and a PCIe video card, probably a 7600GT. I'm not upto date on the benifets of the new motherboards.
I'm also open to changing out my tuner cards. The problem I had was too many things sharing IRQ's so was wondering if changing my tuner cards would solve that.
Thoughts/suggestions?
Thanks!
Mike
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