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Rebuilding my MythTV box

September 17, 2006 Posted by mitch | mythtv | 0 Comments

Well... After the move I still haven't hooked up my MythTV box, which I began last week some time.  I've been using Ubuntu alot lately(on my laptop) and I'm looking at running Ubuntu Server for my mythtv backend/frontend.  And I'm probably going to be compiling MythTV from source this time around on all boxes that will be running it. Binary releases are nice, but making sure they all match up across distributions is a real pain.  If i was only running one distribution it would be a no brainer... however I'm probably not going to ever be on just one distribution.  I think this desktop will always run on the latest fedora just so I can keep up with the changes going on there. Anyway, during the rebuild of the mytv server... My power supply started burning... along with the power connector for the laptop hard drive i was installing the OS onto.  Not good... So, I ended up ordering a new Power Supply and after it showed up... you wouldn't believe it... the power connector won't fully snap onto the clip because of a transistor on the old motherboard.  Who designs these things anyway?  So... I ended up ordering a new motherboard, going for a cheap Socket A motherboard that locates the power connector way in the corner of the board.  After that arrived... as luck would have it... it no longer supports the RAM I had in the old board... needs DDR...!?!?!  why oh why didn't I look at that to begin with you might ask?  well my thoughts were of the opinion that Socket A motherboard... Duron 800MHz processor... old school right?  Should take the same ram I had.... well, I was wrong.  RAM is in the mail... should be here by monday hopefully... tuesday at the latest.  Then I should have the box mostly setup by that night.  Since I don't have school on Monday or Wednesday, I should have enough time to get it done... I might even take it to work... but we'll see whats going on there first...