BeyondTV stability

[ssaeed]

How stable is this program? How long have you left is running without it crashing or freezing up your computer? At the moment I am running it on a Epox motherboard kt-266 chipset with 950Mhz SlotA AMD processor and 768Megs of RAM and it is highly unstable. I am not sure if its the hardware or sofware. Could users please let me know what hardware they are using and how stable their setup is.
Thanks

[attisb]

I have had mine running for more that 4 weeks straight without turning it off or restarting the program/computer. I have roughly the same specs as you have listed with the exception of the motherboard. I have a Asus AT7-MAX2 motherboard with 1800+ Athlon.

[ymee]

attisb what soundcard, videocard and capturecard are you using?

[Brett]

I have had it running 24/7 for several months now, aside from the time I take it down to either install a new version or hack around with xml stuff.

The stability is mainly due to the WinTV-PVR250 I believe...my brother has a similar system up north and claims to have some trouble, but he also has the ATI Crap-In-Wonder

-Brett

[ssaeed]

Hmm,
Must be my hardware..damn. My setup crashes everyday, several times a day in fact. I can bet its the VIA 266 chipset.

[attisb]

Originally posted by ymee
attisb what soundcard, videocard and capturecard are you using?

Soundcard is on the motherboard (Avance AC97 as listed in Device Manager)

Videocard is a Radeon VE (Pretty old)

Capture card is WinTV PCI (Non 250)

There have been some reports about the VIA CPUs not chipsets. At least not that I can remember.

[RobertH]

I have uptimes on both of my systems of over a month (last time they went down was cause the power went out and i tried to hit the silence button on the ups with my foot but managed to get the off button instead ) only time ive taken BTV down was to add a new harddrive or to upgrade from one version to the next/next beta. never have problems

you dont by chance have a soundblaster live in that via 266 board do you? that combination is notorious for all sorts of data corruption especially if you are using an ata controller. you might want to look in the event logs and see if you are getting any error messages from the DISK service. A friend of mine has an asus a7v-266 (something like that, has an via 266 on it) and if he has his sb live gamer in the system he can just get past the text based portion of xp's setup and it will get just a few min into the gui portion and it will start getting data corruption, pull the sblive out and it works fine. there are other devices that cause the same problems on those chips but sb live w/ata controllers are the real annoying one ive seen.

[ssaeed]

Robert
Yes I have a SBLive card. I will go and check the event logs for errors. I will also try and pull the card out and use the onboard audio.

[RobertH]

if youve got disk messages just go and reformat the disk, because more than likely there is already corruption on the system and youve probably got some system files that are damaged (you may even want to get the disk diagnostic tools from the drive manufacturer and make sure there isnt any permanant damage, the friend of mine has killed 2 drives in that system before i notified him of those problems)

[ssaeed]

ok I checked and there were no messages or errors.

[Cayars]

Also try doing a search here and on Google for the VIA Latency Patch. Might help you.