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

[Donald J Lewis]

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
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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!
>