rory

Yeah basically I am tired of towers .. racks I can build no problem but not all need that, though I also would like something smaller then 4U, especially since in most cases I am just using a microATX board anyway (not many need more then 8TB! (4x2TB) or even 4TB at that). Geovision, where is your 2U rack adapter for the Video BNCs?? LOL I really would prefer not to use Cubes but thats where I am at right now. See combo cards come PCI express now, so any old PC with a PCI riser card wont work, has to be, PCI Express. the case i posted the image of, has the option of a riser card, if enough of us are interested I am sure they would provide a riser card for PCI express .. Also, there is no way I would ever give a client a P4 with 8.3+, it is just too slow for that.

Sounds like a job for a custom program .. Otherwise, this is something I did a while back in June 2007, though CenterV2 might have changed since then. I dont even remember what CenterV2 looks like as its really been that long LOL, but here is the thread and the link with a working download of the custom hack, im pretty sure I was hiding the log which comes up on the right side though: viewtopic.php?f=36&t=7362 viewtopic.php?f=36&t=7362&p=62661#p62661 [alternative] I still have the VB6 code if you are interested in working on it yourself.

Ok, a couple things that cause keypad to beep continously .. first what is on the keypad, I cant say what it means though as I only know ademco alarms, but a user manual for the that system should tell you. Examples with Ademco alarm system: 1-Bad Battery, or fuse - can cause siren to go off also. 2-Damaged Keypad Wire - more common, also will have a code on the keypad. 3-Bad keypad - back to this, can you get your hands on another keypad. I would check the keypad wire first, test the keypad at the alarm panel itself with a short wire. Note, ive been out of the alarm field for a while (professionally) so I may not be the best source to rely on, just wanted to add my 10 cents

I dont know that system but I installed and serviced Ademco Alarm systems for several years. When the keypad would not work, meaning touch some keys and they dont do anything, or takes a few hard presses, in many cases it is just dirty, to clean we would open the keypad up, and there is a rubber piece that has the actual buttons, and that goes over the keypad board; press the button and the part under the rubber for that button then touches the circuit on the board and it does its work. We would just clean that rubber piece and the board itself. Also, sometimes the keypad is just bad and that needs to be replaced. What exactly is happening though? Could just be a bad keypad.

Hi, thanks for the link. Do you know of any activeX for the AvTech DVRs? Id like to include it in my software, thanks.

Make sure your Java is up to date, if in doubt goto Suns site and download the latest from there, ive seen that cause this problem before. Also make sure you are an Admin and not a user.

Sounds like you are going to have to trace those wires and see what high voltage is running near them.

First I would check the hard drive .. that has a big effect on the recording also. I would seriously consider upgrading to 8.12. Forget 8.3+ as that system cant handle it. I recently upgraded an Intel Celeron 2.8 with 1GB of Ram .. from 7.0 to 8.12 and it works great. Now, you may need to check if the card can work with version 8 first though, they have tool available for that. If it came with 7.0 or higher then it should work though. I would still tweak XP for that setup, see info here on doing that, skip the Nlite related stuff, go down to the Post Install tweaks. http://www.bahamassecurity.com/software/geovision/dvrlite.asp Make sure you are using XP SP2 or SP3, nothing else. I set my clips for 3 minutes. I set pre and post record, 6 and 3 or 3 and 3 (cant recall offhand, the defaults normally). I use medium on the settings for that, varies between cards, something like 15 and 7. I can check the exact settings later on from an image I have of one of the DVRs. I always use 640x480 Deinterlace, 720x480 consumes much more HDD space, like from 80MB for 640x480 to 200MB for 720x480, with no noticeable increase in quality.

Id still check that the card is legit. Also what is the chipset of the Motherboard? Id lean towards the hardware ... or bad drivers or something. Disable the onboard audio and install a separate sound card, something up to date, as it is those specs are historic and way too slow for 8.3. Its most likely a motherboard issue, I have never seen that problem with a Geo system yet. Additionally on a system with such slow hardware, I would ditch windows 7 and put something on that which was developed for it, such as XP. Geo 8.3 is going to kill that machine though no matter what you do with it.

Yes, if the PC audio is disabled, then the Geo Audio does not work, and Geo will popup an error when it loads.

Disabling the PC's audio should disable it, but will normally get an audio error from Geo when it loads .. but Geo will still work. I havent used 8.34, latest version I have used is 8.33, but I doubt they would leave such a big bug in 8.34. What are the specs of the PC, OS, etc?

I just had a wavy picture on a camera actually, it was simply a bad camera, possibly the power board. It was a camera module so I just replaced it with one from another camera.

Thats the only place I know of. Also you could try turn down the levels, and disconnect any mic if you have one connected. What version is the Geo software, and are you certain it is a legit card?

Under camera and audio enable, just uncheck the audio boxes.

Check connectors on the bad cameras, then once verified those are all okay, maybe the cable is near high voltage as mentioned. Also, did you try the cameras on a monitor at the DVR end, without the DVR?

Sounds good.

Im seeing some sites, well at least one, quoting only 1TB drives for their rack cases, no 2TBs at all. Any idea why they arent using 2TB, like if they get too hot? The enclosures (they call them backplanes?) im going to use for example have a fan. Im talking about something like this:

Thanks, yeah the price is really good on their rack mounts. Anyway I dont think im going to use those backplane things anyway, I just had one with a fan that went bad, and could not find a fan to fit it anywhere on this island, so scrapped it and put the 2 x 1TB HDDs internal and rigged an 80mm fan to cool them.

Hi Foris 1.2 is listed on my website for download. First see if its something you would like to use, then please PM me for further information. Also, you might want to wait for the new version, which is not that far away. Thanks, Rory

check the camera locally first and see if the video is good, then go from there.

Hey tom do you know if that is available in the US yet? thanks

I dont know avermedia personally but I would imagine if its a 120fps card and just 4 cameras then you should be able to do it with any modern Dual Core CPU, even the most basic E5300. We use to do it with P4s with other DVR software but then again the Server software has got much more heavy now and thats where the real issue is IMO, with 4 cams that is, 16 cams is a different story.

It was P4 until version 8.3 came around .. its much much much slower then the older versions of software (or moreso requires much faster hardware), primarily as they develop it now on much faster systems. Personally I wouldnt go less then a modern Pentium Dual Core .. eg,. E5300 .. and 2GB of DDR2 667/800 min. if you have an older card you could run version 8.1x and can then use P4. With even older versions 7.x for example we could even run Celerons without issue. Im in the middle of ordering parts for a rack system right now, what i would consider fairly cheap, under $400 and using new hardware, and can hold up to 6 internal HDDs, but its a 4U as thats the size the card will fit in. Anything smaller I would imagine a riser card would be needed, PCI express riser card for current cards.

I guess I should just dump that idea and go with this one time .. supports 1.5TB drives, 6 total being 9TB max. http://www.norco-group.com/webnew/ProductShow.aspx?ID=299267 Compared to an Istar case and the product in the image I listed in my first post, its about the same price anyway

ok i read somewhere just now about one of these from another brand, and they say they accept 3x 2TB drives but only a max of 3TB .. now im lost! So maybe the max on these are only 3TB .. ?