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Author:  Iceman [ Mon May 10, 2004 7:06 am ]
Post subject:  Do i have to upgrade my hardware?

Hi all,
I use successfully my knoppmyth r4v2 with my hardware... after some problems, now all works well:

- P3 800 coppermine
- P6PRo Mainboard (i suppose it's a BX...)
- 256MB RAM DIMM
- GeForce 440MX SE 8X
- Leadtek WinFast TV2000XP Deluxe

Now I have the possibility to upgrade mainboard and CPU with an:

- AMD Athlon TB 1100 Mhz
- ECS K7S5A
- 256MB RAM DDR

I have to say that actually i cannot watch live tv well... i have set 352x288 resolution in LIVE TV software encoders (P3 800 can't encode and decode in realtime Live TV with 480x480.... when i set up a schedule, 480x480 rtjpeg works well); and when i try to record from tv by MPEG4 encoder, my videos are choppy...
For you, will this upgrade improve my performance? Sould i spend this money (about 40€), to obtain a best hardware or are they nearly the same thing?

Thank You

Author:  cesman [ Mon May 10, 2004 11:04 am ]
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1. As root: mythbackup(You'll want to check your db for errors before running this)
2. Pull hard drive(and whatever hardware from old system)
3. Install in to new system.
4. Auto Upgrade

Author:  Iceman [ Tue May 11, 2004 6:16 pm ]
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OK. i've upgraded...
Now my question is: I tried to use Auto Upgrade option in the cdrom installation, and this showed me: "Attention: this will destroy your data in hda..." etc....
Will i lose my video/music/image?
Will my settings be restored after?
Do i have to recompile myth for lirc and LCDproc support?

Although i don't know why don't i have to reinstall all and try R4V3....

Author:  Xsecrets [ Tue May 11, 2004 7:15 pm ]
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if you use autoupgrade it destroys all data on /dev/hda1 which is the sytem drive/partition. the data drive/partition (/dev/hda4 using knoppmyth default install) remains unchanged.

Author:  Iceman [ Tue May 11, 2004 8:41 pm ]
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i don't know why, but after upgrade Video, Games and scheduled recorings doesn't work...
I'm re-installing all from scratch... :cry:

Author:  Xsecrets [ Tue May 11, 2004 10:35 pm ]
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did you redo the setup and rerun the mythtvrestore?

Author:  Iceman [ Tue May 11, 2004 10:42 pm ]
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no, i did't... but something was restored automagically...
my channel works, images works, sql database, seems to be up and working right...
anyway, i think i will install r4v3...

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