VIA's PCI issue : the source of the problem found.

[CougTek]

You can read the details at The Tech Report (http://www.tech-report.com/onearticle.x/3683).

Here's a snip :

It seems VIA's south bridge chips didn't include a PCI extension called bus parking that Intel implemented in its post-BX series of chipsets. Many PCI card makers simply assumed bus parking would be available to them, and when it wasn't, all heck broke loose—snap, crackle, pop on your SoundBlaster.
The upcoming VT8235 south bridge won't suffer of the infamous bug and VIA's engineers said that its performances are quite good.

[Handruin]

Doohoohoo! Look at all the colors and at all those beautiful windows! It's so wonderful, it must be magic! I'll try a magic trick ... woop, it's all blue now!

Great signatre Coug!

BSOD

[Rocco Siffredi]

Ahh finally an explanation... perhaps now the name of AMD will also improve (surely many people attribute various VIA problems to AMD without knowing)

[GMac]

Not before time I'd say :D It's nice to know that the VIA bods have got it sorted at last (not that I'd ever consider buying another Creative sound card :mrgrn: ).

GM

[Adcadet]

interesting indeed. I knew I should trust Via less than AMD. Hopefully this will be a lesson learned.