[Fwd: [AG-TECH] help Ospray 200 on Dell Precision 420 problem]

[lujian]

 	Maybe our problem of mutli-video-card was not caused by Dell 420, but by VIC.	Maybe the VIC in Win2k has some VFW problems.

	In fact,I DID successfully installed 3 Ospray 200 on Dell 420, 
and it works good with 3 vidcap32 application in Preview mode,
so I think 3 Ospray 200 works on 420.

	And we suspect that VIC with VFW capture interface has some bugs which caused its crash.

	we will work on enhance VIC's vfw capturing module in the new future.

BTW, I updated bios to A11, the VIC crash too.


在 2001-6-28 16:10:00 您写道：
>Mine is:
>
>Celestica A03 Motherboard
>Precision 420 A07 bios
>
>Cheers, Gary
>------------------------------------------------------
>Gary Orser , (406) 994-6451, orser at nervana.montana.edu 
>Montana State University
>Center for Computational Biology
>1 Lewis Hall, Bozeman MT, 59717
>
>On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Donald J Lewis wrote:
>
>> So this may go back to what someone said about DELL using different
>> manufacturers
>> to make their motherboards?
>> 	Have not been able to test a fourth? What can you tell me about
>> your motherboard rev # and BIOS version?
>> Don Lewis
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov]On
>> Behalf Of Gary Orser
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 5:03 PM
>> To: Donald J Lewis
>> Cc: Russ Wolf; lujian; ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
>> Subject: RE: [Fwd: [AG-TECH] help Ospray 200 on Dell Precision 420
>> problem]
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> This may be motherboard dependent:
>> 
>> I have 3 Hauppage cards working in a Dell 420.
>> 
>> The 4th won't work in the PCI 2.2 slot(s) until the 2.4 kernel.
>> 
>> Cheers, Gary
>> ------------------------------------------------------
>> Gary Orser , (406) 994-6451, orser at nervana.montana.edu
>> Montana State University
>> Center for Computational Biology
>> 1 Lewis Hall, Bozeman MT, 59717
>> 
>> On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Donald J Lewis wrote:
>> 
>> > Don't bother trying the Hauppage cards in the Dell 420.
>> > IT DON"T WORK for more than two cards. A PCI bus bridgeing
>> > problem is built into the DELL motherboard preventing them
>> > working. We are now on a ASUS mb using four video capture
>> > cards (hauppage) and cameras and it has been working for several days.
>> > I can give spec's if anyone is interested.
>> > Don Lewis
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov]On
>> > Behalf Of Russ Wolf
>> > Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 10:47 AM
>> > To: lujian; ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
>> > Subject: [Fwd: [AG-TECH] help Ospray 200 on Dell Precision 420 problem]
>> >
>> >
>> > Lujian,
>> >
>> > do you kow which (manufacturer model) motherboard you have in this
>> > precision 420 ?  Dell has used a bunch in this model system.  PCI slots
>> > behave wierd on some motherboards depending on how they actually set
>> > them up - often they share resources so you have to get the cards in the
>> > right combination positions to make things work.
>> >
>> > I would suggest using one card move it from slot to slot until you
>> > confirm that at least a single slot works/dosent work then try a card
>> > different from the osprey - like a hauppague or another capture card -
>> > compare results.
>> >
>> > 	-Russ 'the hardware dective' Wolf
>> > 	 Boston University
>> >
>> > lujian wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Hi,
>> > >
>> > >         I installed 3 Ospray 200 video cards  on my Dell precision 420.
>> > >
>> > >         3 VIC works, and can capture 3 video sources.
>> > >
>> > >         But the VICs does not work long on that machine, in 2~3 minutes,
>> > the 3 VIC crashed one by one.
>> > >
>> > >         And I try just one Ospray, the same result: in a few minutes VIC
>> > crashed.
>> > >
>> > >         But when I install the Ospray 200 on other kind machines, the
>> VIC
>> > does not crash( from 1 card to 3 card, they all works ok).
>> > >
>> > >     I even reinstalled W2k on that DEll precision 420, it didn't help.
>> > >
>> > >         I heard Dell Precision 420 may have trouble on the last PCI
>> slot,
>> > but I didn't use the last PCI slot.
>> > >
>> > >         The OS of all machines are W2k with SP2.
>> > >
>> > >     Has anyone ever installed Ospray 200 on Dell 420 workstation?
>> > >
>> > >         Thanks a lot!
>> >
>> 

Lu Jian
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Beijing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics
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