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Hello!
Quite some time ago, I was running MythTV on a computer directly hooked up to my living room TV. A switch to a local provider that only does IPTV in our area and nothing over analog coax negated this usage, so I reformatted it and installed Windows 7. At some point while I've ran this hardware setup, I had strange rebooting issues. Over the months nearly-year that I've been running this particular setup I've added a separate graphics card and a PCI Express NIC. This did not fully mitigate the issue and I tabled it for later. This weekend I've had some time to look at the computer and the CPU temperature was gradually rising until it reached a level where the OS would freeze. Starting from square one, I grabbed some canned air and blew out the fans and it has been running rock-solid and less than half of the previous temperature.
Now that I've resolved this issue, I believe that it would be safe to use the onboard NIC, but I'm at a loss as to what exactly I can use it for! I've ready of teaming/bonding two ports, but the Cat5 cable just runs to an 8-port unmanaged switch. While I do have an open port, I do not believe that there is any way to configure said switch for this. From there, the 8-port Gigabit switch is connected by a decent-length ethernet cable to a Netgear N600 Wireless Dual Band router next to my PC. Unfortunately, the Netgear is only 10/100 on the four LAN ports, so any theoretical speed gains from even the gigabit equipment - let alone a machine with 2Gb thoroughput - would be wasted.
I've skimmed a few suggestions online and the best solutions seem to be bonding the ports, running a VM through one of the ethernet ports, or attaching a NAS to one of the ethernet ports. The first I've covered above. The second I'm not sure sure about; I currently have no Virtual Machines running on the server, but eventually I may want to run something like the game servers in a separate VM so that they do not affect file transfers, I guess? I think the 10/100 LAN ports on the router hinder even this use, though... For the third usage, I do not have a NAS device attached at this time, but if I eventually attach one would it be difficult to configure it so that all of the space simply shows up as extra space on the server's shares? I'm kind of dabbling with territory that I'm only vaguely familiar with here, and I don't have any NAS equipment to play around with and figure this out! ^^;
Are there any other uses, or are any of the above worth the effort? I'd really rather not remove the PCI Express NIC as I'm out of expansion slot covers at this time but I'm also at a loss when it comes to how I can use the equipment I have available!
Quite some time ago, I was running MythTV on a computer directly hooked up to my living room TV. A switch to a local provider that only does IPTV in our area and nothing over analog coax negated this usage, so I reformatted it and installed Windows 7. At some point while I've ran this hardware setup, I had strange rebooting issues. Over the months nearly-year that I've been running this particular setup I've added a separate graphics card and a PCI Express NIC. This did not fully mitigate the issue and I tabled it for later. This weekend I've had some time to look at the computer and the CPU temperature was gradually rising until it reached a level where the OS would freeze. Starting from square one, I grabbed some canned air and blew out the fans and it has been running rock-solid and less than half of the previous temperature.
Now that I've resolved this issue, I believe that it would be safe to use the onboard NIC, but I'm at a loss as to what exactly I can use it for! I've ready of teaming/bonding two ports, but the Cat5 cable just runs to an 8-port unmanaged switch. While I do have an open port, I do not believe that there is any way to configure said switch for this. From there, the 8-port Gigabit switch is connected by a decent-length ethernet cable to a Netgear N600 Wireless Dual Band router next to my PC. Unfortunately, the Netgear is only 10/100 on the four LAN ports, so any theoretical speed gains from even the gigabit equipment - let alone a machine with 2Gb thoroughput - would be wasted.
I've skimmed a few suggestions online and the best solutions seem to be bonding the ports, running a VM through one of the ethernet ports, or attaching a NAS to one of the ethernet ports. The first I've covered above. The second I'm not sure sure about; I currently have no Virtual Machines running on the server, but eventually I may want to run something like the game servers in a separate VM so that they do not affect file transfers, I guess? I think the 10/100 LAN ports on the router hinder even this use, though... For the third usage, I do not have a NAS device attached at this time, but if I eventually attach one would it be difficult to configure it so that all of the space simply shows up as extra space on the server's shares? I'm kind of dabbling with territory that I'm only vaguely familiar with here, and I don't have any NAS equipment to play around with and figure this out! ^^;
Are there any other uses, or are any of the above worth the effort? I'd really rather not remove the PCI Express NIC as I'm out of expansion slot covers at this time but I'm also at a loss when it comes to how I can use the equipment I have available!
