Burst PCI transfer

**badgers** · 08-03-2002, 11:49 AM

isn't there a patch released for correcting a VIA bug in the PCI bus?

I seem to remember that to get max raid performance you needed to install a patch that fixed the VIA burst transfer on the PCI bus.

I remember that a PCI burst should be 1024 cycles but VIA was only getting 900 or so? also the cpu was in the rotation when it should not be.

Has anyone heard of this, and if so has anyone used it? my board is in the hands of the RMA gods now so I can not check it.

I remeber that this patch also fixed VIA chipset problems with sound cracking.

**Krizalid** · 08-03-2002, 03:31 PM

I think you're thinking of the nForce chipset. It had that problem. All you have to do to fix the onboard sound issues with the 7VRX(P) is increase the latency for the sound card. You can do it with any of the modded BIOS'.

**mynd4spd** · 08-03-2002, 03:34 PM

There is the VIA Raid Performance Patch...
You can get it here....

http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=66

**qwerty57** · 08-03-2002, 03:37 PM

oh and there's georges pci latency patch..

**badgers** · 08-03-2002, 04:21 PM

yes I was thinking of georges latency patch.
Has anyone who has sound problems tried that patch?

**qwerty57** · 08-03-2002, 04:26 PM

all my creative sound problems have always been cause by:

running ultra dma 4 or 5 if i run my hd's at ultra ata 66 all is good.
changing pci latency from 32 - 256 the bios
changing pci slots
uping the vcore

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