How's your HD PVR working?

[myoung84]

Originally Posted by myoung84

• Voted: 95%+
• Motherboard: Foxconn NVIDIA GeForce 6150
• Chip: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 2.2GHz
• HD PVR Rev: D2 (x2)
• HD PVR Driver: 1.5.6.0
• Source: DirecTV HD H21-200 720p fixed (x2)
• Blaster: USB-UIRT
• Audio: SPDIF
• SageTV: 6.6.2
• OS: Vista Ultimate 32 bit

At first I had nothing but problems when using my old P4 Dell PC. After about a week of constant lockups I decided to move Sage over to my other PC, listed above, and have not had a singe lock up. I am currently at 100% stability. [Knock on wood]

Here is my old "bad" setup requested by stanger89.

• Voted: Below 49%
• Motherboard: Whatever is in a Dell Optiplex GX280 with P4 2.8GHz
• HD PVR Rev: D2 (x2)
• HD PVR Driver: 1.5.6.0
• Source: DirecTV HD H21-200 720p fixed (x2) (Also tried native and 1080i fixed)
• Blaster: USB-UIRT
• Audio: SPDIF/Analog (Tried them both)
• SageTV: 6.6.2
• OS: Vista Ultimate 32 bit

[bhyman1]

Could this be stickied? It's a good resource for people looking for build advice.

[Addict]

My issue is that the HD-PVR seems to shut itself down and restart somewhat regularly...leaving about a 5 minute gap in my recordings (quite annoying). I don't know if this is due to poor USB throughput, backlog, or just the HD-PVR overheating...

• Your vote - 80%
• Motherboard/USB controller - CPU 2GHz Athlon, 1.5GB RAM, MB/USB (need to look up)
• HD PVR Rev(s) - First version, pre-ordered it
• HD PVR Drivers - 1.0.5.1
• Source/settings (native switching, 1080i, etc) - Switches based on source
• Analog or S/PDIF - S/PDIF
• IR Blaster - USB-UIRT
• Sage Version - Latest
• OS - Windows XP SP3