Tiny Wiz

Well... VIA the neverending story... Cut'n'Past from http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/#991053575 "VIA KT133A turned out a real "bug mine". We have hardly forgotten the problems with VIA 686B South Bridge, when the new bugs were encountered in the VIA KT133 chipset North Bridge, according to Chip.de. Luckily, the bugs discovered do not appear in all the North Bridges and are not so destructive as those found in South Bridges some time ago. The problem about these North Bridges is the incorrect Warm Restart. Namely, it means that the screen remains black during warm restart from DOS or Windows mode. Chip.de claims that this bug is typical only of those North Bridges with 1EA0 and 1EA4 marking, while the chips with 2EA1 marking are bug free (see the first four symbols of the last marking line). MSI has already started exchanging the mainboards with the North Bridge bug. Besides, in some cases the bug is supposed to be easily eliminated by increasing the Vcore from 3.3V to 3.45V. We wish it worked for all the cases, but only 30% of the boards can be cured this way." Go figure... yet another bug... I guess some of you will say "This only affect those who use SBLibe", well I say "Don't blame Creative if VIA doesn't know how to make a stable chipset. That's a fact! I guess the only thing for VIA is to release another VIA4in1 that solves yet another bug. As it did with AGP, and as thay are still doing with UDMA-100.

To me this forum is about helping others with their hardware and not an information forum about what to buy. The buying part has already taken place. To me it is obvious that the problem is in the chipset, as the problem mostley occurs when using the VIA chipset, now explain that. And go figure why the UDMA-100 and win2k using VIA chipset is like Russian rolette ;( ! Why was it until some months ago that the AGP on VIA using high-end graphicscard was a pain in the butt with lockups ;( ? Well, I could be wrong, hey the problem might even be with all the UDMA-100 drives and of course the graphicscard manufactures like NVIDIA don't have a clue on how to build a graphicscard. Why should you have to buy a diferent soundcard and/or graphicscard just beacuse you buy a new motherboard ? That is not fare to me!

Well, I think this has started to be a flamewar against Creative. Why not spend the energy into helping out the person whos Live card doesn't work in win2k... I bet he doesn't care what type of soundcard you have.

You did not mention what type of motherboard you use, or acctualy what chipset you have. Always make sure you have the latest motherboard patches (VIA!). And there is also an issue in Win2k and SBlive when combined with certain motherboard/chipset manufactures. Try diffrent PCI slots. UPDATE your BIOS Hope it helps

Well, I can't try the new drivers yet as I've returned the drive. Maby the next time I need abigger hd . While we are at the HPT controller I might as well ask if anyone has had the same expireance in Win2k pro. Everything is working great except at shutdown. When I choose "shut down" or "restart" windows closes down and saves ( I forgot what it actually says nevermind ), and when the reboot or shutdown is to take place it turns off my HD for aprox. 2 seconds and starts it upp again. This takes place about 3 times and then it goes to reboot or shutdown. I have tried diffrent drivers and bios revisions. It only happens in win2k ( have not tried win2k server ). (Pardon my english. It is not my native language.) Any help to this problem would be very apreciated

There seems to be a known issue using HPT-366 controller and UDMA-100 harddisk. That is at least for sure an issue using IBM DTLA series, but I haven't tried with other brands. It seems you are having the same problems as I had.