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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Michael Tiller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael.tiller@gmail.com">michael.tiller@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">MythTV users,<br><br>I've been running MythTV for over 5 years now. I originally built the machine myself and in that time, I've had numerous hardware failures. I think the tally stands at 3 power supplies (with 2 cases), 1 CPU (my own fault), at least one motherboard. I suspect these crappy power supplies have a lot to do with it, who knows. I don't mess around with the machines much once they are built so I'm not sure what has caused it.<br>
<br>Last time I even mentioned this in this newsgroup I was accused of gross incompetence by several people. I'm not interested in hearing all the reasons I'm probably to blame so let's just stipulate it up front and spare me the insults.<br>
<br>The machine is again teetering on the brink of failure (takes several tries to boot up but runs fine once up?!). I'm expecting a hardware failure any day now. My question is what next? I'm sick of this revolving door of hardware and frankly it isn't helping the WAF much either. I've got lots of computers but for some reason the Myth system has all the problems.<br>
<br>I'm contemplating just buying a stock system of some kind rather than assembling something from parts. Since I've upgraded to two outboard capture devices (HD-PVR and HDHR), I don't really need my old PVR-150 any more and that opens me up to smaller (fanless?) computers with VDPAU capable graphics cards. In fact, VDPAU (and a reasonable CPU just to run the frontend GUI) are about my only requirements since I can use the HDHR IR pickup via TCP/IP.<br>
<br>So I'm open to suggestions about potential systems. I'm aware of the Acer Aspire Revo. That looks nice (small, cheap, capable). I'd have to replace the HD, not sure how easy that would be with such a device (and whether there would be any issues having it accept a 1TB hard drive in its place). Anybody have any other suggestions for some small, cheap and capable systems that I could replace my existing setup with?<br>
<br>Ideally, I'd like to hear from people who actually have working setups with similar hardware. Things like the Revo look cools, but I need to know if they actually work.<br><br>Thanks for any suggestions. I'm not such a hardware maven so I'm not that up on the latest things.<br>
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<div>May I ask, what power supplies are you using?</div>
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<div>I've gotten cheap ones with cases and I always put a "better" one in - I've had good luck with Antec, but that's just me. I also use the 80% certified ones.</div></div><br>