[plug] Sound hardware

[Jonathan Young]

Senectus . wrote:

>On 12/19/05, Tomasz Grzegurzko <tomasz_g at arach.net.au> wrote:
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>>I had an interrupt problem like this once. A
>># cat /proc/interrupts
>>made it quite obvious to me. Something similar may be revealing for you
>>also...
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>great idea, except I don't get past post... or even _to_ post.. it's a
>hard lock before it gets to count ram.
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Heh.  I kept thinking that when reading the replies!  They are all good 
ideas, but you can't run things if you can't POST!!

On the other hand, perhaps you could take stock of your resources with 
the AC97 in use, with it disabled and then check out the predicted / 
likely resources the SBLive! will require when installed to see if 
trouble is to be expected?

Also, and this won't be necessarily the most useful idea either, get 
another SBLive! to try.  You say it works on other PCs which implies the 
fault is your PC in some way and not the card, but I have seen 
particular add-on cards refuse to work with particular mainboards for no 
good reason when working correctly in 4 or 5 other similar yet different 
PCs.

Same chipset, same revision, same FCC ID... but this network card 
belongs to this mainboard and this network card belongs to this 
mainboard and that's just how it is and we don't know why!  The 
mainboards themselves were different of course, but best as we could 
tell, no single piece of hardware was at fault.  Meaning that if you 
find an SBLive! that does work with your PC and your SBLive! works OK in 
the computer you flogged it from... swap them permanently.  Sounds 
weird, but it HAS been done before.

Nothing else to suggest at this stage, since most of the helpful pagan 
rituals are considered in bad taste this close to Christmas.

-- 
Jonathan Young
Director of PC-PHIX
jonathan at pcphix.com

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