Todd

Have it narrowed down. Bad Sata controller or at least going bad or a bad hard drive. Data was backing up to write to the hard drive and that was causing it.

That just made my day! That has been bugging me forever. Thanks! I'm going to try it soon.

Going to give the p67 series and intel 2500K processor a shot today. Built system last night and should have the 1480 X 2 in today. Wish me luck!

How do you view the 8 ip cameras? The screen divisions go to 16 so camera 17-24 wouldnt appear to have a channel per se. This has confused me from day one. I'm about to fill up all the analog channels on my system and I do have one IP camera. Will this be able to be viewed through the geo main system or is there another way?

This is just a straight up p8p67 asus board. I used 1333 ram since it will never get overclocked for this vid system. I put 2 geo 1480's in it. I would use the 2400 cpu but the deals at Microcenter for the 2500K and board is too good to pass up and we put 6 hard drives in this thing. (10 TB for storage) I got board and cpu for $299 and yesterday I bought cpu and Gigabyte board for $279. I also found some 1600mhz ram for $40 (adata). So far so good. Nothing hicupped. The antec 300 is a good case. Newegg had the Illusion that comes with the front fans already installed for $55 and free shipping. I got three of them. I always put 2 fans in front and have never put a fan on the side. Generally that just confuses the airfloww and this only has a g210 vid card in it so it's not a big deal. I like the front filter in these cases. It helps a lot. If I were building a gamer rig...... I might use a better case....but this really works fine. I've got a gtx295 in one of these things so I know it fits. I would be carefull if you put on a huge air cooler but I can confirm that a corsair H50 will fit. (I have one in these cases). I think 4 ghz would be a drop in the bucket. Haven't clocked one yet but it sounds like childs play.

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I've got some pictures on my phone. I'll get them up at some point in time. Using the Asus P8P67 and the 2500K cpu. Running 2 Geo 1480's for 32 channels. One WD blue 500gig OS drive and 5 Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB drives. An Evga geforce 210 vid card and 4 gigs of OCZ DDR3 1333 ram. Windows 7 32 bit, Antec 300 case and a OCZ ModXstream pro 600W psu. Could have used the H67 board and onboard graphics but they wanted 5 Storage drives so I needed 7+ sata controllers. This board has 8 on it. 4 sata 3.0 and 4 sata 6.0. So far so good. It's snappy and doing what it should. I think sandy bridge will be good for these systems. Microcenter has a good deal on board and processor in store.

2 more solid days. It looks like the P67 and 2500K cpu's are ok. So far so good with no hicups.

8 hours in and so far so good. No issues. All is smooth.

8.4 will work with windows 64. I've been told there's still some issues out there from a friend who's in the business. I've been using 32 bit with no trouble and his opinion was to stay that way for a while. Probably didn't help you much.

I'm using the Android app on a droid X and it looks pretty good. There's some lag at times but that's due to the phones speed I think. I think it will get improved but i'm not unhappy with it.

New system. Gigabyte H55M-S2H motherboards. Seagate Barracuda 1.5TB HD (32mb cache, 5900rpm) Both onboard graphics and geforce 210 tried 4 gigs DDR3 1600 ram (running 1333) I3-530 Processor WD Blue, system drive Geovision 1480A capture card Windows 7 32 bit Video playback is choppy. The time counter moves but the images on the screen freeze. Eventually the images jump forward and continue. Suggestions? I'm thinking hard drive at this point but I'm open to suggestions.

I've been using the Antec 300 case since it has a front filter and space for several hard drives. 2-120 mm fans added to front of case. 4 gigs, of ddr3 1333mhz or 1600 (corsair, Adata, etc) I5 650 cpu for 16 cameras (has onboard graphics in cpu) I7 870 for 32 camera systems P55 boards with geforce 210 graphics cards for 32 camera systems H55 boards with onboard graphics (when used with the 650 cpu) 16 cameras OCZ modstream-pro 500W or 600W power supplies Seagate XT 2TB drives for storage Western digital Blue 500gig for Operating system Window7 32 bit Geovison gv-1480 card(s) The Gigabyte boards have been working well so far. The P55 usb3 uds has 2 sata 6 controllers on them. Could be in my head but they looked really smooth and couldn't make them jumpy. And of course if it works...... I don't mind staying with what is working so I've been pretty happy.

Been using the Gigabyte p55 boards with sata 6 controllers on them (on sale at the egg for $105 right now. I7 870 cpu (microcenter) and 4 gigs of ram. Buy from a reputable dealer on your card. I've gotten my last few from www.jsbsurveillance.com but there are many other out there. He's just local for me. Don't use a dell. Odds are you won't even have enough sata power connectors to add a couple extra drives. And with 32 cameras you will need a minimum of 2 extra drives if not more.

Yes we did. We initally switched to western digital black drives and now to the seagate XT drives (2TB). Problem solved. The 5900 seagate's were cheap but 5 were either bad or choppy. Also, I put the new seagates which are sata 6 on a sata 6 controller and it seems much smoother. I was able to play back at 32X and no jumps at all. I was pretty impressed. I think I will stick with that combo for a while.

Do you have a supplemental power (molex) plug connected to it?

I'm running Win7 64 bit on home computer and not having any issues with Multiview. I'm running 8.3.2 fyi. Going to try 8.4 and see what happens

I've dealt with your issue many times over the last year. Each time it was the hard drive doing exactly what you mentioned. I've put a few posts up about it. I've come to the conclusion....at least for now, that for what ever reason you need to use the western digital Black series or the seagate XT series. both of those have been problem free Those are both higher performance drives. Not sure why they work and not others....just glad they do. Too bad on the "Blue" drive. Comp usa and Newegg have had them for $39 around here. Bought one Saturday for a system drive for $49 on 500gig from microcenter.

The IP cameras suck the life out of hard drives. on a one TB drive, one IP camera took 660 gigs and 9 other cameras got the rest. I spent a lot of time recently getting rid of false motion detects. reflections on floors, other areas in background etc. I went from 4 days on a terrabyte to over 60 now and counting on 3 TB and I added 2 more cameras to boot. So those kind of factors are wild cards to look at. There is a hard disk calculator in the 8.3 software as well.

Ok, false alarm. I was tricked. The told me the sonic wall had been opened and it hadn't. Once we got the ports forwarded, all is working well. Secondary question. When I use multiview either on the network or from another location outside using the internet, I only get about 9-11 fps per camera. I can understand when using the internet but not in house on the network. Any way to fix that?

I have a sonic wall. The ports have been opened. If I put in the IP, I hit the sonic wall. If I use the multiview software, it says it can't connect to the server. If I put in a wrong password it says wrong password. Because of the password, I think I'm hitting the geo server.....why won't it connect?

It's on a network. We forwarded 4550, 5550, 6550 and 80 I believe. I do not have control to my sonic wall (stupid activant requirement). I can view multi view inside the network however on another computer. I'll try that link and report back. Thanks.

On both computers or just geo? The Geo one is. I don't think the home pc is set that way however.

I doubt the video card since you can boot the computer and it says video lost and not a black screen. I would probably contact geovision. The card may have gone bad. Double check the 4 pin molex is connect to the actual geo card if that one has one. If you have a modular power supply, make sure it didn't come out of the power supply. I would also pull the geo card out and reseat it.

Did you check some of the simple stuff first. Octopus plug in back unplugged. Power supply for cameras is still plugged in.