Hi, On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Ben Kochie wrote: > yea.. sounds like IO wait to me, if the CPU isn't working, I/O will drive > the load up 1.0 for each stuck process.. happens with tape drives. and > such.. it probably is some kind of resource conflict.. that's my best > guess. Well, I don't know about resource conflicts. Like I said, no two devices are sharing IRQs, and I didn't add any new hardware so there really shouldn't be anything new happening. I don't see any IO hangups. Don't have tape drives on this machine and none of the SCSI devices are active, so unless this thing handles my single IDE drive _really_ badly, there's really nowhere for intensive IO to be taking place! Which is precisely my problem - where the heck should I be looking? There's nothing in syslog. I _know_ I've set the BIOS up for optimal values... I've had some other problems since installing this board. First, the CDR kept dying on burns, but since that no longer happens I am assuming it was the IRQ conflict. Second, and this is STILL happening, videocapture no longer works smoothly. The bt848 card is dropping frames like CRAZY. Once again, no IRQ conflicts, same exact hardware/software, _faster_ CPU and, on all accounts, this MBoard is SUPPOSED to be better than the SD11. I am desperatly trying to figure out what's wrong here so I can either (A) Know what to fix, (B) Know which component to take back to Tranmicro! Anyone thing there might be something wrong with the CPU? I'm not sig11ing on anything... any RAM/CPU test suites? -Yaron --