MSI K7T Pro2-A + SBLive! + DMA enabled = freezes

Ranmaz

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Dec 26, 2000
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The combination of the three for me doesn't work. I get freezes.

But I don't want to sacrifice the performace of my harddrive, or go out and buy a new soundcard.

I would like people to give this a try and let me know your results.

The stress test that I use is the following:

-Open multiple sessions simultaniously of Windows Multimedia Player (only version 6.0 can do this) Playing a 5min mpg of some sort (eg.musicvideo).
-Open around 10 and start moving them around.
-Almost immediately or before a minute, your system will freeze with sound looping if your system is not "stable".

so I would like to hear from the people who do own this combination and who have got their system to pass/failed "my stress test".

Again the only way I've found how to bypass this "freezing" is to either disable DMA or replace my sound card with another (which in my case I did, with a SB128PCI) for 100% stability.

Thanks.