Get your facts straight. These problems were only mainboard problems since they also occured with other soundcards like Turtlebeach and Teac. Those problems never or extremely rarely happened with other than VIA mainboards. It was the time when there were still LOTS of other good soundcard makers out there and they all had problems with VIA chipsets. This was also the time when onboard sound got popular. I wonder why.... Youre talking about the KT133 chipset. Go check the internet and you will see that this was one of the worst made chipsets ever made by VIA and had various problems. No wonder VIA always made a new version of their chipsets at that time (133a, 266a, etc) Do you remember the horrible PCI transfer speed problems of pre-(and including)KT266A chipsets? And because those patches never came from creative, but were instead patches that fucked with the mainboards it proved again it was ONLY VIAs fault. And yes, I had those mainboards aswell. and all went well when I switched to a different chipset brand (ALi, Intel, AMD). Though there was no real alternative to VIA at that time if you had an AMD CPU, I took older (but still available) AMD chipsets and they proved to be very mature and stable. But because of their age not the fastest anymore.

very true ! I was so happy switching to nForce after the VIA suckage the KT133A worked very well and still does work well but what was between KT133A and KT800 sucked very very much ... and yes I had those problems, too