is anyone out there having a dual AMD MP config?!

Does anyone out there with an dual AMD MP configuration experience sound problems (probably because of the data transmission through the bus)?!

I tried both my Creatuve Audigy Platinum and the onboard sound chip. The same... I also tried with one processor.
I was having Win2K but some "latest" drives from AMD [-peep-] up my Win2K installation. I have WinXP now and I'll soon install Linux and see what happends...

Dany.

Which motherboard?

That was fun.
Trust me, except the sound thing, everthing else works fine. And I did put some silver grease on the CPU din .
However, it might be the AMD chipset or the motherboard or just me .

Dany.

I know a few people who have your combo, and none of them have your problem...

What problem is it exactly? Does audio crackle? Lose sync? Skip?

If it's just crackling, it could very well be your audio cabling. Keep power and data lines away from your audio cables, make sure any spring-loaded clamp connections aren't dirty or loose, etc. I had a crackling problem for a while and tracked it down to loose hair tangled in the line-out connections on the back of my subwoofer (I had a lot more hair back then).

You aren't by any chance using the onboard USB ports? If the ATX I/O plate with the motherboard didn't have cutouts for the USB ports, then you really aren't supposed to use those ports. Tyan used a slightly pre-release chipset revision (with buggy USB controller) for early MPX motherboards and stupidly left you the ability to use that buggy USB controller. It might be causing this problem.

<i>If a server crashes in a server farm and no one pings it, does it still cost four figures to fix?

Hmmm...I seem to remember that early revisions of SBLive! (original, not Audigy) drivers didn't like WinNT 4 and SMP.

I also remember building a 440BX SMP box (used to be my Linux crashbox) with an SB PCI 128 card. Creative's drivers had problems with audio speed sync that would screw up DivX playback badly; Win2K's default Ensoniq ES137x drivers worked just fine (the SB PCI128 is apparently based on this chipset).

Could be some revisions of Audigy drivers are just not really SMP-stable.

<i>If a server crashes in a server farm and no one pings it, does it still cost four figures to fix?

It's skipping. Also happends with DVD movies too. Hmmmm, some stupid setting somewhere, but where?!
I have an Asus MB, and they workedaround the USB bug by providing an USB extension card, so it's not that. I've also removed my sound card and try it with the on-board sound chip and got the same result.