On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 20:56 +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Mar 2006, Lee Revell wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 18:36 +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> > > Just checked recording with nice -n -20 arecord... on another system
> > > (2 x P2/400MHz, 128MB RAM) under load - no overruns even without
> > > realtime. Is it VIA?... What does it usually mean, when a system
> > > freeses gradually? 
> > 
> > Yes my theory is broken hardware.  Do you have the latest BIOS?
> 
> Well, this mobo hardly exists:-) E.g., now I cannot find it on ASUS any 
> more. Once I was able to do it and then I downloaded something that seems 
> to be BIOS version 1003i. Currently it says BIOS version 1003. No idea if 
> it is any newer and if it would help... Honestly, I am not very keen on 
> frying it - I would rather live with having to do audio-recording on the 
> horrible Compaq AP400:-) Apart from that, I don't have any possibility to 
> create a DOS floppy atm, earliest on Monday. Would FreeDOS do? Or is the 
> danger to kill the BIOS then even bigger?
> 

No idea - you are completely on your own if you go that route ;-)

> BTW, RAM should be fine - tested it after buying.

Yes it's not likely to be a RAM problem, but broken interrupt routing or
an ACPI issue.

Lee



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