According to the Power Supply Calculator here - <br><br><a href="http://www.journeysystems.com/?powercalc">http://www.journeysystems.com/?powercalc</a><br><br>I only need around 263 watts (this assumes about 5 watts/card). I've got
<br>a 450 watt power supply, so even if the card used 50 watts/card, I still should be<br>in good shape. <br><br>I read somewhere about VIA chipsets and the PVR-500...Maybe this is part of <br>the problem?<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 7/7/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brad DerManouelian</b> <<a href="mailto:myth@dermanouelian.com">myth@dermanouelian.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Jul 7, 2007, at 4:22 PM, Christopher Robbins wrote:<br><br>> Title says it all...I just got my hands on a PVR-500, pu`t it into<br>> my box and<br>> I've had problems with it ever since...<br>><br>> A bit of background - the box is running SuSE
10.2, with the latest<br>> version<br>> of ivtv (0.10.3 ) and the latest firmware along with the most<br>> recent MythTV (from<br>> RPMs). It's an Athlon64 with a gig of RAM. I could understand if<br>> it was only
<br>> MythTV that went down, but when I try to use the card, the ENTIRE<br>> SYSTEM<br>> locks up, and I need a restart to save it.<br>><br>> The PVR-500 I have uses the Philips tuner, so it's not a problem
<br>> with the tuner. (or at<br>> least, the type of tuner in use). I thought the problem may stem<br>> from too much<br>> dust in the system, but I've cleaned it out and everything's<br>> running okay there. Originally,
<br>> I had a PVR-350 alongside the 500, but I pulled it out for<br>> debugging the problem. The<br>> PVR-350 works fine, with no problems. I've tried changing slots as<br>> well, to no avail.<br>> ivtv startup is posted below.
<br>><br>> Any ideas? I realize this isn't specifically a Myth problem, but I<br>> was hoping someone could<br>> point me in the right direction (and yes, I am sending this out to<br>> ivtv-users as well).
<br>><br>> Thanks!<br>><br>> - Chris<br><br>Maybe your power supply isn't enough to drive the dual-tuner card?<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">
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