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Found this online a while ago, my audigy makes my entire system unstable
A little birdie told me about some very interesting events that took place here around or about Computex yesterday. Apparently, a VIA engineer was speaking directly to members of the press about the VIA PCI bus problem that has caused performance and compatibility troubles for some users, and he let slip the precise nature of the problem. It seems VIA's south bridge chips didn't include a PCI extension called bus parking that Intel implemented in its post-BX series of chipsets. Many PCI card makers simply assumed bus parking would be available to them, and when it wasn't, all heck broke loose?snap, crackle, pop on your SoundBlaster.
This must be why when the audigys in my system and i try to transfer large amounts of files it crashes the system.. or even if i try to leave the system on for more than an hour with the audigy in it reboots.
What athlon chipsets do support PCI bus parking? SIS745? Nforce2?
I feel at a standstill, I like my system but wish the audigy worked in it, I dont really want to 'waste' money on a Santa Cruz and get a lesser card than what I already have, and dont want to settle for onboard sound as it sucks on my Z560s, but like I said dont want to buy a new motherboard (nforce2) for the onboard sound of the nforce or to be able to use my audigy...
A little birdie told me about some very interesting events that took place here around or about Computex yesterday. Apparently, a VIA engineer was speaking directly to members of the press about the VIA PCI bus problem that has caused performance and compatibility troubles for some users, and he let slip the precise nature of the problem. It seems VIA's south bridge chips didn't include a PCI extension called bus parking that Intel implemented in its post-BX series of chipsets. Many PCI card makers simply assumed bus parking would be available to them, and when it wasn't, all heck broke loose?snap, crackle, pop on your SoundBlaster.
This must be why when the audigys in my system and i try to transfer large amounts of files it crashes the system.. or even if i try to leave the system on for more than an hour with the audigy in it reboots.
What athlon chipsets do support PCI bus parking? SIS745? Nforce2?
I feel at a standstill, I like my system but wish the audigy worked in it, I dont really want to 'waste' money on a Santa Cruz and get a lesser card than what I already have, and dont want to settle for onboard sound as it sucks on my Z560s, but like I said dont want to buy a new motherboard (nforce2) for the onboard sound of the nforce or to be able to use my audigy...