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The 686b had a serious pci flaw. The reason why it only seemed to manifest on Sb Live was because Live really needed bandwidth from the pci bus for its dsp, compared to soundcards that didn't have a dsp at that time. Everything that needed bandwidth caused corruption including editing systems.
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Originally Posted by 1UP From my memory, the issue was that the SB Live was not PCI 2.1 compliant in terms of CPU priority/PCI rotation, and this caused problems with the 686B as Via did not implement bus-parking. . |
The 686b had a serious pci flaw. The reason why it only seemed to manifest on Sb Live was because Live really needed bandwidth from the pci bus for its dsp, compared to soundcards that didn't have a dsp at that time. Everything that needed bandwidth caused corruption including editing systems.
http://news.spamcop.net/pipermail/sp...ay/002069.html