----- Original Message ----- > The board has VGA, DVI, and HDMI, so you should be covered six ways to > Sunday with flat panel displays. If this Philips is an older "fork lift > required" 37" CRT then it probably only has composite, Svideo, maybe > component. I *think* it has HDMI in, I just didn't have any HDMI capable VGA cards at the time, so I moved on to something else in my head. > > Well, oddly, it's up to about 1.4TB moved now overnight, and not a > > whisper > > of an error in any channel. It does need to be replaced, but the > > question > > is can I make it limp along reliably until she gets another job... > > Just keep fingers/toes crossed. That mobo is nearly 10 years old, > never handled RAM correctly. You suffered a PSU failure which apparently > damaged something to some degree. But you now know there are relatively > inexpensive upgrade options available with the features you need, and > you can begin planning, while not in "emergency mode" with sis > hounding you every day to fix it. ;) This is the second Major Catastrophe in about 8 years, so we've gotten settled a bit that she takes second position if she can't pay my rate. :-) But yes, an upgrade was planned; I just wanted to upgrade the damn tuners first... Thanks for the homework with NewEgg; I don't mind buying stuff from them as long as it isn't HDDs. They can't pack worth a crap; it's Received Wisdom on the MythTV mailing list that you *never* buy drives from them, if you want them to last more than a year. My endgame is to replace the entire backend with an HP DL180g6, which has 12 SAS/SATA tray slots on the front, and proper cooling. But that, too, is down the road a bit. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@xxxxxxxxxxx Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274 _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
