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| Author: | xcrixtx [ Fri Jul 28, 2006 11:52 am ] |
| Post subject: | 4+ tuners and IRQ conflicts - need sugestions on MB |
Right now i have a master backend that consists of the following : Soyo 865 Motherboard Pentium 4 3.0 prescott Nvidia 5500 agp card (can't get 6600 do native lcd res with same modelines) Gigabit Ethernet WinPVR-500 2 HD5000 HD Tuners Soundblaster live soundcard I have enough slots for everything, however when i have the second HD tuner installed my second tuner on the pvr 500 will not work correctly. I get errors about irqs etc. When i change the tuner to the pvr-500 second tuner it locks the system up or crashes the backend. with out the second hd tuner everything works great. Since i want to be able to do qam with one and ota with the other i am looking for a motherboard that can handle all this. onboard gigabit or good onboard sound would be good but then i would like to put my pvr-300 in there too. (4 cards 5 tuners) Any one have a similar setup that can handle all of this? I would prefer AM2 or 939 setups. any help would be appreciated. |
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| Author: | tjc [ Fri Jul 28, 2006 5:48 pm ] |
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Is it using the APIC? You really shouldn't be running out of interupts that fast... |
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| Author: | xcrixtx [ Mon Jul 31, 2006 8:04 am ] |
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when looking into the problem it seemed that may be affecting it so it turned it off. i think i used the kernel option apic=noirq. that didnt help...is there a way to check to make sure your not using it...or anything else to force it not to? would changing slots help? |
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| Author: | Liv2Cod [ Mon Jul 31, 2006 3:09 pm ] |
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I know the pcHDTV folks have mentioned that you can only have four of their tuners in one box "because of IRQ limitations." I don't know if this means only THEIR tuners or ANY tuners, however. Is it possible there is a general limitation on IRQs that will prevent us from ever having more than four tuner devices in a single box? If so, I guess one alternative is to set up another backend computer with some of the tuner cards. |
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| Author: | tjc [ Mon Jul 31, 2006 8:42 pm ] |
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Sorry xcrixtx, guess I wasn't clearer enough. If possible you want APIC because it supports more distinct interupts that way. |
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| Author: | xcrixtx [ Wed Aug 02, 2006 8:14 am ] |
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in that case i did use apic and then didnt...neither worked. I may try moving stuff around to see if the order helps.... but besides that .... anyone have success with a board and 4 tuners? |
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