Eric1055

I had a 16 channel system fail (all cameras were indoors), it was installed in a Dell poweredge server, by a third party contractor, for a website company that streams video for retail businesses. Looks like the steel panel power supply failed and damaged the card, the video capture card had to be replaced. Keep an eye on your camera power supply, upon inspection of ours a copper wound coil was burnt, and most of the power supply main filter capacitors were swelled up. The lesson we learned is don't skimp on a low quality camera supply. The replacement supply had larger capacitors, larger heatsinks, and it was caged, versus the old unit which was a bare exposed circuit board.

I stumbled upon your post while looking for experiences with a MV9300 chip in a Pci x1 video card I found on the bay for a non profit business. I don't know a lot about these off shored cards. When it did work (and when it stopped working) did you notice if the big square video capture chip was getting warm or hot to the touch? My non profit had three DVR's stuffed into a closet which had no climate control one unit died (it was over 90F (32c degrees) in the closet), and we're blaming it on old age and heat stress. So I wonder if perhaps the video working for a short time then stopping if it was damaged by heat stress.