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I am running Windows XP pro with definately seems to be a driver issue as I
can manage everything else with this combo. I have had this particular MB
and CPU combination running on several servers for over 4 years with 0
downtime (except standard maintenance and upgrades)
Steve
"V Green" <vanceg@nowhere.net> wrote in message
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>
> "J. Clarke" <jclarke@nospam.invalid> wrote in message
> news:cedpin02aq6@news2.newsguy.com...
> > johns wrote:
> >
> > >> Any Ideas???
> > >
> > > I suspect that only one of those cpus is in use. The other is doing
> > > nothing. An 800 cpu is getting close to marginal for good video
> > > capture. 400 is the absolute bottom line. Something else. I seem
> > > to remember that the dual PIII mobos were developed early,
> > > and they had lots of problems with locking up and resetting.
> > > I never saw one of them last more than a year.
> >
> > Funny, I've had one running in one of my servers ever since they were
> brand
> > new to the market. Had another one running for years--it would probably
> > still be running if I hadn't managed to apply the wrong voltage in the
> > wrong place and let the smoke out of it.
> >
> > As for being "developed early", in point of fact dual PII motherboards
> that
> > can provide the correct power and clock speed accept dual PIIIs just
fine.
> > The boards made specifically for dual PIIIs are much newer than those.
> >
> > He didn't say what OS he was using--any Windows NT or Unix variant
should
> > make good use of dual processors.
> >
> > However there are known problems with video capture and dual processors
> that
> > are related to driver issues and haven't necessarily been corrected with
> > the latest drivers--I suspect that that is what he is encountering.
> >
> > > johns
> >
> > --
> > --John
> > Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net
> > (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)
>
> The *problem* is the god damn Swiss-army knife AIW.
>
> If you wanna capture video, and are serious about it,
> get a DEDICATED video capture card, NOT one of
> those all-in-1 disasters. They try to do too many things,
> and wind up doing all of them in a mediocre fashion
> at best.
>
> I have used Winnov Videum cards under four different
> multiprocessor systems from NT4 through XP SP1
> with NO problems whatsoever. The earliest of those
> was a dual Pentium Pro that ran at just 200 mHz and captured
> 704 x 480 @ 29.970 to U2W (80 Mb/sec) drives with
> no dropped frames. If you want to make use of your
> dual CPU's, the capture driver and the compression
> codec in use has to be written SPECIFICALLY to use
> more than one CPU, most aren't.
>
> Properly designed capture hardware imposes little or no
> CPU load-that's all handled by the card itself.
>
> If the AIW is capturing to MPEG2 on the fly, and NOT using
> hardware compression, something
> in your system is likely to be overheating-check your CPU fans
> and the vid card fan and clean the crud outta them.
>
> Alternatively, capture to a non-compressed format if you have
> the space and encode off-line using TMPGENC or similar.
> When the CPU has all the time it needs to encode (non real-time)
> you'll get a better final result as it's not being pushed to do something
> it may not be able to sustainably do.
>
>
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