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On Wednesday 12 September 2001 07:09, you wrote:
> Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I don't have any crash either (DJGPP and MinGW). The problem I pointed
> > out was fixed by Henrik's patch.
>
> I think I have nailed the freeze-problem now! I had this sneeking suspicion
> that this might have something to do with my motherboard, since the code
> works for everybody else, and the long tedious debugging didn't show any
> results.
>
> I have had some really serious problems with my Abit KT7A using a VIA
> KT133A chipsett. The southbridge VIA686B on this card have a hard time
> dealing with my SB-Live value soundcard. No BIOS firmware upgrades or
> software driver upgrades has worked for me. As a result a number of random
> multimedia applications freezes on my computer.
>
> To confirm that this was the problem all I had to do was to disable the
> SB-Live PCI device from Windows98's Device Manager. The mode selector now
> works like a dream.
>
A friend of mine and I both have the same chip-set, some things that helped
stability were making sure that your SBLive isn't sharing an IRQ with anything
and also having a USB device plugged in hurts performance and sometimes stability.
Personally I haven't had any problems with my board, but then again Im not using
the RAID options while my friend is... He had a ton of crashes.
About the IRQs it always helps to make sure NOTHING is sharing an IRQ afaik.
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Thomas Fjellstrom
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