broken pvr-350?

[stefan]

Hi,

My motherboard recently broke down, and I have now finally had it exchanged. Got things up and running fairly easily, but it seems my old pvr-350 got a bit upset by it all. After I exchanged the motherboard it now randomally freezes. Well, if I watch live tv (no timeshift), the picture freezes suddenly. This can happen after a couple of hours, or after a few minutes. I haven't found any pattern to when it happens. If I record stuff, then it suddenly just stops recording sometimes. I'm assuming it's the same underlying cause.

Any ideas what might be wrong? Is it time to ditch my old faithful servant? Or is there something I could try first?

[gEd]

It may be an interrupt conflict
try moving to a different PCI slot and disable all unused devices in the bios such as serial/parallel/midi/firewire.

[stefan]

Heh, thanks :-)
I've been away for too long. Don't know how many times I've given that same advice to other users back in the days... Thanks for the reminder, I'll certainly try that.

[gEd]

oh and

Is it time to ditch my old faithful servant?

yes....

[stefan]

In the apartment where I currently live the only option is plain old analogue tv. Within two months I'm moving to a place where the options are dvb-t and dvb-s. Since I know that it's hard to receive dvb-t at my new house, I'm leaning towards dvb-s. Means I'll have to read up a bit. But it also means I'd be happy if I don't have to buy a new analogue capture card for now...

[stefan]

I moved this thread...

Moving the card and/or changing IRQ doesn't seem to do any difference.

To add some to the diagnosis: Just before the stream freezes, the stream is choppy for a few frames (less than half a second). Sound also freezes when image freezes. I tried the card in the old wintv2000, and the problem is the same there.

Changing channel (in gbpvr) doesn't help; the image is just kept frozen. However, if I go back out to the tv guide and then start watching any channel, it works again for a while.

I can't find any pattern to when this happens, even though I have a slight feeling I can trigger it to happen quicker by switching channels a lot. But that might just be a coincidence.

[Reddwarf]

To me it sounds like a failing card, I had similar behaviour with a dvb-t stick that eventually called it a day and stopped working for good.

[stefan]

Ok, thanks