I purchased a new Soyo KT-880 Dragon v.2.0 board to use with my Myth setup. The ability to have 12 hard drives (8 IDE and 4 SATA) is pretty cool. Well, when I have my PVR-500 installed the machine will not get past the POST. It will start fine and give you the PCI summary but it will not go any further. When I pull the card it works fine. I have tried the card in two other computers I have (Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Dell XPS-350) and it works fine. I am able to boot the machines and get video off of both tuners.

After some research I found that the PVR-500 and the KT-880 chipset are not compatible. I don't know if Via or Hauppauge is working on this but have any of you managed to get this to work? I am at a point now where I have switched my Myth install over to the A7N8X Deluxe (with 3 hard drives and one DVD drive) so I'm limited to adding any more storage to that. I suppose I could add a SATA drive and then extend the LVM onto that, but I haven't run out of space yet.

The worst part is that the KT-880 is fine when running Windows (with drivers installed) and I have Xandros running on it right now, but I really wanted to use that for the Myth box. It's just that one issue when the PVR-500 is installed.

IVTV drivers can produce lots of DMA requests per second. VIA chipsets tend to choke on that causing your system to hang. Apparently the bug lies in the VIA IDE controller chip. It's a hardware bug that may be worked around in software. Disabling the VIA IDE controller and connect the drives to a add in PCI controller helps in most cases. Others fixed it by disabling ACPI and APIC in the BIOS.