Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3261 mails)

["Alfredo Yunes" <alyunes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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



  -----Original Message-----
  From: jayhen [mailto:jayhen@xxxxxxxxxx]
  Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2001 11:18 AM
  To: suse
  Subject: [SLE] MSI K7T Trubo Motherboard


  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