VIA Latency Patch 0.20 beta 11

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"This is a Windows driver that will patch motherboards that have VIA chipsets.
It is intended to solve these problems:

Files copied from one IDE hard disk drive to another are corrupted.

The computer stops ("freezes", "hangs", "locks up") when playing sounds, especially to a Creative SoundBlaster LIVE! card

The computer stops when copying to or from an IDE DVD, CDROM, or CDRW drive Sounds played by a Creative Labs sound card are distorted.
NOTE: It does not apply any fixes to AMD chipsets, such as the 750 or 761 and any Intel Chipset.

"This is a Windows driver that will patch motherboards that have VIA chipsets.
It is intended to solve these problems:

Files copied from one IDE hard disk drive to another are corrupted.

The computer stops ("freezes", "hangs", "locks up") when playing sounds, especially to a Creative SoundBlaster LIVE! card

The computer stops when copying to or from an IDE DVD, CDROM, or CDRW drive Sounds played by a Creative Labs sound card are distorted.
NOTE: It does not apply any fixes to AMD chipsets, such as the 750 or 761 and any Intel Chipset.

-The goal of this special version of the patch is to maximize the PCI bus bandwidth without sacrificing stability.
-This version of the patch does not disable STPGNT CPU cooling for Athlon processors.
-This version of the patch enables STPGNT cooling for Athlon processors. This is only done for debugging purposes, and I don't plan on enabling STPGNT by default in the final version of the patch


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