Repost, Blue Screen of Death with Geovision 650 or 800 card

[masarati 0]

hi,

I was wondering if anyone else had encountered this. I have installed true geovision 650s or 800s(running 8.01 software) in the following system setups and get blue screens of Death mainly at night

for customers who are running 5 to 16 cameras

Dell E310/Dimension 3100 (can this machine handle geovision cards)

P4 2.8 to 3.06 chip with hyperthreading technology

512(in one system) to 1GB of ram(in the other 4)

intel chipset 915GV

Video is intel 82XX with 128 megs support

Win XP or Win XP media center are the running operating systems

(I have tried an true ATI9250 PCI card w/256MG ram, as there's no AGP/PCI-e slot with no luck)

I have an extra 250 Sata drive to store the geovision Data

 

it has also happened to the one Dell 5150 I have in place with a customer, but not as quickly(ran fine for 2-3 weeks) as the 310

is it a software setting I missed? I only install the main system with webserver active and remote view.

one customer Did say that the BSOD said IRQ_LESS_OR_EQUAL, most don't bother to read it unfortunately

I'm at a loss. any thoughts and help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

MAS

[rory 0]

Hi,

 

Are the DVR cards on the first or second PCI slots?

 

Did you try XP SP2? You mentioned Media Center, that could be the issue.

Hopefully its been tweaked also and not using the OS defaults.

 

It wouldnt be my choice of PC for a DVR, though it seems the meet the specs, dont know about the motherboard and chipset though..

 

Are these Legit Geo Cards?

 

Have you contacted Geovision direct yet?

 

here is the chipset you mentioned ..

http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/embedded/915gv.htm

 

The 915G/915GV Express chipset is Intel's first PCI Express and DDR2 chipset with integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900 for the Intel Pentium 4 processor in the LGA775 package. The 915G/915GV Express chipset GMCH, with its enhanced architecture graphics engine, delivers not only high 2D/3D graphics performance, but also provides an efficient high bandwidth communication channel connecting the processor, system memory, I/O subsystem, and other components together to deliver a stable mainstream desktop platform solution.

[masarati 0]

hi Rory,

thank you for your response. the cards are in the second PCI slot. Yes i did try XP2 as well with the same result. the dreaded blue screen of Death

 

it isn't my choice of PC, either my boss is fascinated by Dell, so that's what he wants me to use.

 

these are legit cards, but it happens with the Geovision clones/fakes too.

 

I'm not sure about the chipset either. I have contacted Geovision, but only thru email. I'm going to try by phone on monday

thanks

MAS

[rory 0]

Sounds like it maybe the mother boards then .. (chipsets)

 

You should be able to swap them out for a Micro-ATX with an Intel or even SIS ... maybe get one that has an AGP slot and add a 128MB DDR ATI Card (or generic ATI Radeon).

 

I once ordered a SystemMax PC for a GV800 and it came with a Via, had all kinds off issues, so i swapped the mobo for what i could get down here, was a Micro ATX with SIS chipset.. uses an 128MB DDR AGP Generic Radeon Card, its been running perfect since last August still on the internet and I havent been back for one single service call

[masarati 0]

hi Rory,

I believe it's the mobo (chipset) as well, but my boss is hell bent on making these work and prolly won't spring for different mobo as i already tried a seperate video card with no luck. dell's are if u don't modify them. thanks again for your help

Mas

[masarati 0]

Rory,

have u ever gotten this, a BSOD error that said IRQ_LESS_OR_EQUAL?

thanks

MAS

[rory 0]

Dont know bout that .. but maybe an IRQ Conflict with the Geo Card and something else .. did you check and make sure there are no conflicts in device manager?

 

Hey .. like $50 for the SIS mobo i bought .. )

[masarati 0]

yes I did check the IRQs, but reading about the error iteself in the newsgroups. It could be a driver, heat or any myraid of things, but the customers aren't giving me/or my boss the first few lines of the BSOD, so it's hard to diagnose the situation

[masarati 0]

Rory,

can up give me a step by step list of the software you install when you build a DVR?

 

I install the main system, remoteview and I check webserver in the main system.

 

Could it be as something as simple as a setting in the software?

the error doesn't happen when i have the the DVR with 1 or two cameras running, but with customers who have 5 to 16 cameras running.

thanks

MAS

[rory 0]

Well .. here is a list i made a while back ..

http://www.cctvforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=36977#36977

 

Ive gotta do an updated one .. but basically you only install the DVR software, turn off a bunch of uneeded windows services, some other speed tweaks like display settings, etc .. also you should totally block out IE best you can .. even if it just means turning on Content Advisor ..

 

I would only install the Cleaners if you ever need to use them .. once noone can browse the web then there should not be any issues ... make sure to turn on TCP/IP Port Filtering .. just enable the Geo Ports (and VNC if you are using that) ...

 

Now .. if you like .. i can log on sometime if you install Ultra VNC and go through one of the systems so you can see how to set it up .. let me know .. just remember im on the -5 Eastern Time ..

[masarati 0]

Rory,

Thank you for the list. is it necessary to do all this for the geovision to work properly?

 

you don't run AVG on the system?

 

what is ultra VNC?

 

i appreciate your help

 

MAS

[rory 0]

Nothing else should be run on the DVR, including Anti Virus software .. once only the ports required for the DVR software are open and every single other port is closed, should not have any issues.

 

Ultra VNC is downloadable from here (its like Remote Desktop/PC anywhere)

www.ultravnc.com