There
is a known bug with the Via 686B southbridge, especially when used with a
SoundBlaster Live card. Check www.viahardware.com for more
info.
alfredo
Approximately three weeks ago I purchased the
following system:
AMD 1.2Ghz 266Mhz FSB
MSI K7T Turbo (MS6330) ATA
100 controller
384 MB geheugen
Matrox 40GB UDMA 100/7200RPM
HardDisk
Leadtek NVIDIA TNT-2 M64 32MB TV Out AGP
videocard
Floppy
DVD ROM 12x/CD40x IDE Creative
Soundblaster Live
Value 1024
CD-Rewriter 16x10x40 Plexwriter IDE
etc.
I installed
WindowsMe on a 6 GB partition to be able to burn CD and play games and
installed Linux on the rest of the hard drive. The installation of both
operating systems went perfectly.
I started Linux up and started
copying files from my older Linux computer to this computer. I immediately
noticed that Linux began to hang temporarily and get very choppy and slow
during the file transfers. I thought the problems were due to the network. So
I copied files from one dir to another dir on the same computer and the same
problem occured.
Now totally pissed off at Linux I booted to Windows
to see how windows was doing. Windows was worst, the computer locked up
totally until the file transfer was finished.
So now totally pissed
off I tried to return or get my computer fixed and was told that my problems
were totally normal. So I asked the salesman to show me on another system
(Different type of motherboard) to see if the same problem would occur. It
didn't and was told I couldn't compare appels with oranges. The other
motherboard was a MSI K7T Pro-2 A
The computer that I'm currently
using is a AMD Athlon 500Mhz system and I have never had this problem. After
trying to convince me that all computers will pause/ lock up during file
transfers without success the salesman started to get aggressive. I
almost punched him in the mouth but decided to stay calm. After refusing
to acknowledge that there is a problem with the MSI K7T Turbo (MS6330)
motherboard, he basically called me stupid and to get the hell out of the
store. I left after getting his name and lets just say he hasn't heard
the last of me yet.
My questions are:
1: does anyone else
have, had or have heard of this problem?
2: are there bug fixes to
correct this problem? If so where can I get the files.
I noticed that
there is a VIA 686B southbridge data-corruption bug
fix for Asus but not for MSI or have I just not found it yet.
Anyones
help would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Jay