Simon wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 22:06:19 +0000, Steven Graham <srg@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
>
>>I have a Soundblaster Live! running ALSA driver and the CD Burner is
>>connected to the sound card vire a normal analog CD cable.
>
>
> Try the digital connector, if there is one. That's the one I had to
> use with my Audigy 2 Platinum.
>
>
Neither works

"Steven Graham" <srg@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> As it is, this machine runs Windows NT and 2000 fine. But I have in the
> past with certain hardware found that this motherboard can be unstable
> in 2000, espcially with G400 graphics card and the promise Ultra100 car
> tat the same time. Maybe rather than dodgy memory it's the mobo.

A quick search on google reveals that your motherboard has a VIA chipset.
Motherboards with VIA chipsets are overrepresented with this kind of
random problems and strange behaviors with some hardware.

regards Henrik
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> I have a Soundblaster Live! running ALSA driver and the CD Burner is
> connected to the sound card vire a normal analog CD cable.
>
> I have run alsaconf but to no avail.

Recompile alsa with that specific card given as a ./configure option?
Make sure the cd channel is unmuted in alsamixer



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> A quick search on google reveals that your motherboard has a VIA chipset.
> Motherboards with VIA chipsets are overrepresented with this kind of
> random problems and strange behaviors with some hardware.

Really? Mine runs fine in slack, although it does require me to reinstall
the secondary IDE controller every time I reboot into windoze.


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MikeyD wrote:
>
>>>A quick search on google reveals that your motherboard has a VIA chipset.
>>>Motherboards with VIA chipsets are overrepresented with this kind of
>>>random problems and strange behaviors with some hardware.
>
>
> Really? Mine runs fine in slack, although it does require me to reinstall
> the secondary IDE controller every time I reboot into windoze.
>
>

Mine's fine as well. I used to have issues with my old board (ALI
chipset IIRC) and my nVidia video card but those have disappeared now.

Ross

"MikeyD" <m_donaghy50@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Motherboards with VIA chipsets are overrepresented with this
>> kind of random problems and strange behaviors with some hardware.

> Really?

Yep, a quick search at google groups with the string '"via chipset
problem"' gives 665 hits which contains the phrase "via chipset problem"
at http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%2...set+problem%22

Replacing via in the url above with ali gives 53 hits, intel gives 45 hits,
sis gives 23hits and nvidia gives 5 hits.

The numbers above indicates that nvidia seems to be very good chipsets,
but then you should remember that nvidia hasn't been doing chipsets for
very long and don't have many users who has been asking questions in
usenet news.

Via with 665 hits is really overrepresented with chipset problems.

> Mine runs fine in slack, although it does require me to
> reinstall the secondary IDE controller every time I reboot into windoze.

Maybe you are lucky enough to have avoided any hardware that might give
problem with some via chipsets. However, it still sounds as if you have
some strange problems sometimes. I can't tell for sure if it would help
to replace your motherboard to a board with another chipset.

regards Henrik
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