Best Mainboard for SageTV Server?

[silkshadow]

While we're on the server topic, anybody running the Sage service on Windows Server 2003?

The service or Sagetv? I am running SageTV on Server 2003 but don't really use the service as I run sage from the taskbar. I don't do standby so theres no reason to use the service.

[stanger89]

The service, I was having some trouble getting it to start, but it was just a stupid user privilages thing, it's been running happily for about a week now.

[mdmint]

Originally Posted by silkshadow

The service or Sagetv? I am running SageTV on Server 2003 but don't really use the service as I run sage from the taskbar. I don't do standby so theres no reason to use the service.

I'm not using standby or hibernate on my Sage Server either but there is a reason I run it as a service. A service can restart if Sage crashes for whatever reason. While prior to 2.1.10 and having service as an option and running 2.0 in the tray I only had Sage weird out once in 7 months, it's enough reason for me. Murphy says the Sage Server won't act up again until we're out of town for a couple weeks so better safe than sorry.

[stanger89]

Plus nobody has to be logged in for the Service to run.

[hufnagel]

Originally Posted by stanger89

While we're on the server topic, anybody running the Sage service on Windows Server 2003?

Yep. brutally stable too.

[jptaz]

Speaking of Stable...

I got my Giga-Byte 7N400Pro2 and got sage working on it after much difficulty related to the second IDE channel and I have to say between the New nForce2 based mainboard Dual Channell DDR and the AMD 3200+ with 400Mhz FSB most of my performance issues with SageTV and my Clients are gone. So far I have not seen any dropped frames in my recordings even when beating up on SageTV by starting and stopping clients in the middle of recordings. I don't have my PVR 500 installed yet since I wanted to make sure I was back where I started from first. hopefully this weekend I can get the PVR 500 installed so I have 6 Tuners to allow watching live tv.

John

[hufnagel]

heh.
jp reminded me... I finally found a mainboard in my collection that's stable and uses all 3 of my PVR-250 v16 boards reliably. EPoX 8K9A+.
only has a 1600+ cpu on it right now and an 80GB drive, but it'll run for weeks/months without issue and record on all 3 boards simultaneously while feeding 2 MVP's. Can't ask for much more than that! :P

[johns55]

Do not know that its the "best" mainboard, but I went and bought a "Best Buy" day-after-Thanksgiving special E-machine with 2.8GHz Celeron for $200. It has worked out great with the PVR500. Running comskip the client and the service, the CPU is at 100 percent often. I have not had any problems so far.

[silkshadow]

Yep. brutally stable too.

I concur.

I actually started out with Sage on a ECS k7vta v3. It comes with onboard software Promise raid. Its not appropriate for this thread, but for anyone wanting to give Sage a 'trial run' on a cheapo box, this is an excelent board to do so on. I got it for ~$USD80 with a barebones PC (2000+ AMD XP, 128mb of 333 ram and a cheepo case), added 7 spare IDE hard drives I had doing nothing and stuck an old ATI 7500AIW on it. Slapped Sage on it and it ran rock steady no problems. Then I added Meedio and started playing with other things, decided I wanted a full HTPC-server and upgraded it.