Yaron wrote:
> 
>   Hi,
> 
(snip, snip)

> 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
> 
> --
> 

I'm also fighting a performance problem with a different motherboard.  
I've been runnning some of the benchmarking software from Doug's benchmark
page in the hopes that I can get a feel for what's going on.

http://people.redhat.com/dledford/benchmark.html

I've run tiotest, lmbench, and bonnie - all these were easy to compile
and run.  lmbench is comprehensive but a little opaque as to how to get 
it to spit out results.  Once you've figured it out it can generate a lot of
good result data.

Here is a memory test that was recommended to me - I haven't tried it 
yet.

http://reality.sgi.com/cbrady_denver/memtest86/

Good luck
Kent