On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 17:29 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote:
On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 11:41 -0500, John Pierce wrote:
Hello, I have MythTV 0.19 running OpenSuSE 10.1, which is sitting on an AMD Athlon XP 1800 and an old Biostar motherboard with the VIA chipset and a HopHog PVR 500MCE. I have been bitten by the via chipset problem of have the system reboot spontaneously for sometime.
At the risk of sounding completely ignorant, I have never encountered that problem on a board that wasn't fautly in some way.
I have under clocked this machine to the bare minimum and still random reboots ranging from 5 to 30 minutes of live tv, and forget live tv and record from the second tuner.
Sounds rather like your board/memory/CPU is faulty in some way, your PSU doesn't give enough power, or CPU is overheating.
Gigabyte K8U ULi Socket 754 ATX Motherboard Never heard of ULi chipset. What I can recommend is the GA-K8VM800M - it's a mATX board, socket 754. Yes it's VIA chipset but I can assure you they don't reboot spontaneously. I run a number of web/mail/dns servers based on that board and they all have uptimes of over 100 days, under fairly heavy loads.
Hans
I agree with you on the 939 socket. I presently have an ASUS A8V with Athelon 64 and an MSI microATX with Semperon. The MSI is much faster (two or three to one) than the ASUS> I also have problems with the ASUS board. If I press the eject button on the DVD drive, the computer reboots, even after replacing the DVD drive. When booting up, it always wants to go to the IDE drive instead of the SATA drive, even though I set the bios hardrives to disable the IDE drive. It also does not keep time and I just changed the batter, the second in 6 months. I am going to replace the ASUS board with an MSI,l maybe Gigabyte. I am in Taiwan for the next year, so the boards are pretty cheap over here. With socket 939, I can use my old processor. My suggestion, don't get an ASUS board. Art