Well i am proud to say i have a no lockup machine been runnin for a week with no restarts or bsods

I think it is all a matter of luck with AMD/VIA. I know some fellas that have no probs at all yet they are running out of date drivers, cards all over the place, some pieces of old hardware etc. etc. Yet on the flip side I know others with years and years of technical experience who cannot get their AMD/VIA system stable at all even with all the latest drivers and BIOS updates.
I think some combinations of hardware work and others don't.
 
However, It may be a case of how the term "Unstable system" is defined. Some people may say that as long as the system doesn't crash during their daily 2hr game of CS then that is stable. Others (who work with servers for a living usually) consider that only when a system can be stress tested for 1 month continuously without the slightest problem should it be deemed stable.
 
I sit somewhere in the middle. I never turn my system off. I expect it to always work no matter waht I do. I expect the odd crash but I also expect that crash to be to do with dodgy software not something like THREAD_STUCK_IN_DEVICE_DRIVER etc. That seems to plague VIA/AMD users.
 
At the end of the day it is all subjective. What is one mans scrap is another mans Rolls Royce.
 
However, seeing the number of VIA/AMD users on these boards and others complaining of this problem and that I feel that there MUST be some truth in it all.
 
Just my $0.02

Some days ago I managed to solve the problem.
Check http://www.theddrzone.com/news.asp?id=404 and download the beta patch released by VIA. The only inconvenience is that audio skipping is back (I'd gotten rid of it using the PCI Latency Patch from George).

So you get rid of 1 problem and create another, via just is amazing. Why do you guys put up with this from via, its crazy. This IRQ not equal thing can be a million things, just cos 1 person gets it working by installing patch number 10,000 doesnt mean it will work for everyone else.

THAANNNNNKKSS everybody
 
I mixed up all your ideas 2 weeks ago !! This is what I made ...
 
-1- I completly format my hard drive ...
-2- After that I set all my Bios parameters to "default"
-3- I take out all my PCI boards !
-4- I have reinstalled WIN XP pro
-5- Then I moved all my PCI boards (and I haven't any PCI board on the first slot now) to have a maximum of different IRQ's for each PCI device
-6- I just install the via 4 in 1 drivers (and I haven't installed the via latency patch)
-7- My computer is now PERFECT !!!
 
Rq I don't have disabled the ACPI because a lot of friends said me that I 'll lost too much performance ...
 
NO ERROR since I reinstalled all !
 

I am so happy !!!! I can play now ! I can do everything with no problem ! No freez no infinite loop error no irq not less or equal, ..... THANKS A LOT

Give it another week

I put up with My Via M/B for six months, with periods of reasonable stability mixed in. What a sucker. Bought an intel board, put the same cards and software in, and it was up and running within an hour. No Stops, no blue screens nothin. IMHO Via have some way to go before they can claim their chipsets are stable. Are they still releasing a "service Pack" every two weeks perchance ? How many people bought Branded ram ? How many a bigger power supply ? How many binned their SBlive ? Wow. 8)

To be fair, the SBLive! wasn't all just with Via. Intel chipsets have been butting heads with the BSLive! too. The big reason is because Creative didn't follow the PCI specs, and Via got hit with more blame than they really should've on this one.

SBlive probs on intel? you have any links for that? its given me 0 probs on the intel board, gave 0 probs on the via board to be honest with you but ive heard they caused probs.

Well, I use a Sound Blaster Audigy and audio skips about 2 seconds from time to time.
At least that damn blue screen is gone...

Try PCI Latency Timer (Clk) = 64 in the Bios.