This one has replies to your other ms as well....

"kony" <spam@spam.com> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 18:42:28 -0400, "pek" <here@nospam.org>
> wrote:
>
>
>>The task man freezes, too. Everything _apparently_ stops (including
>>logging) except the audio loop. I took my trusty dmm and the voltages are
>>all ok, no dips when file transfers take place.
>>
>
>
> You mentioned file transfers, but not where?
>
> Were they over the lan or was source or destination drives
> connected to a PCI controller card, OR a discrete controller
> chip on the motherboard?

Nothing on lan, just internal drive to internal drive and external usb
driver to internal drive and vise versa. All internal are mb ports, no
extra cards except video and xfi, tried the usb drive on other ports as well
as a powered hub also tried another drive in another enclosure. Each time
the file transder got going the pc would freeze. The nforce 4 provides all
the conectivity for the mb as I recall, no extra chip for the sata.

>
> This is a Creative Labs sound card, rigth? Try a different
> driver, try tweaking the PCI latency in bios menu or use
> "Latency Tool" (Google search it) to raise latency to at
> least 96-128, or preferribly remove the sound card entirely
> from the system and see if the onboard sound exhibits the
> same problem.

I'll try the tool and jack up the latentcy, can't hurt. I'll also look for
an older driver, I always try get the latest driver for anything before I
install. But I've read from other groups that there are some serious
problems with older drivers and static. I may just take out the board in
prep for an rma, since I haven't heard form biostar support, yet, and go to
newegg and start the process there. Looked at other boards, no problem with
biostar mb there, and the biostar usenet group is kinda dead. I can see
that if the bus locks up the xfi would play out it's buffer, but I don't
know why it would repeat. All in all it's the hardest problem I've had on a
pc, except for the time on an asus board (a7v333) the pc wouldn't boot if
the boot drive was the pri master, but would if I moved it to any other
position. I eventually replaced the drive and fixed the problem, it was
just weird that it wouldn't boot with the drive in the pri master. Come to
hink of it, I've got 5 WD 40 gig drives that are problematic.

I'll try some more things today and then send the board back, but I'll need
to have a new one in hand since this is my 'work' pc. I'll keep the
replacement biostar as a backup, or possibly a folding box.

pek