infinity9

http://www.georgebreese.com/net/software/ Check out the Via latency patches. Not sure if the KT400 still need it but these really improved scores on a KT333.

Man dont post stuff when you really have no idea what you talkin about. There are enough rumors goin around about what the average person thinks about hardware. Just sayin Via is the problem is really dumb and non-informative. The other people were right, its because of poorly written drivers/software or non-xp drivers/software. BTW turning off ACPI is dumb if you really use XP.

man get rid of that mobo.. its baaaaad.. the be6 is by far one of the worst mb's i've ever worked with. replaced alot with blown caps for no aparent reason and many hard drives eaten. got one in the shop right now be6-ii that has eaten 3 hard drives. 2 on the hpt366 and one on the u33 controller.. also the bios sux if you use scsi cards, its hard to get it to boot right with some scsi cards because of the hpt controller, try updatin to the latest bios may help i9

Wow talkin about the blind leading the blind.. Believe this man, if you buy any computer product you are vunerable to any type of strange problems/compatibility issues. There is not perfect piece of hardware and Intel has had just as many problems as Via, "cough" 820, and there is no magical chipset to take you to fairy land of computers that work perfect. The fact is, ever new generation of chipsets there are some that work better that others. With Via you take chances of undiscovered compatibility problems due to their quick schedule to get new products out, AMD has not so hot driver support, this also goes for Ali, who also has some strange compatibility problems. SiS, are you kidding me? this is the chipset used in 2/3 of PcChips motherboards (the worst motherboard i have had the misfortune to work on). If you want a simple computer to work simple get a mac i9