pek wrote:

> Caps look ok, Biostar still features this board on their home page, so
> I'm pretty sure production probs have been worked out. Of course, they
> might just have one humungus unsold inventory. I discovered something else
> in my troubleshooting; The freeze happens without fail when I am
> transfering a lot of large files (movies or mp3's). Which points me at the
> chipset for sure. I have an aftermarket Thermatake fan on it, the old one
> was way too noisy.

The sound looping means it hasnt frozen at all. Many audio players do
that when the cpu isnt able to keep up with their demands. The audio
playing stream defaultly gets higher priority than everything else,
including taskman for some reason, so when the cpu is maxed out you get
no response from anything except the player, which just loops because
it isnt getting data refreshed.

Definitely looks like a software problem to me, something maxing out
the cpu.


NT