SparkE said:
I personally do not trust the USB interfaces on Athlon-based computers that use the VIA chipset that was common on Athlon-based machines about 4 years ago. I've spent hundreds and hundreds of hours fighting with my Abit KT7A-RAID machine that has that chipset in it, specifically because I could not reliably get a good transfer into the machine. The VIA southbridge chip on that design handles all USB, IDE and ISA traffic and when you put a continuous stream through any of those paths, it drops samples occasionally. Lots of other computers using that same chipset had the same problem. My dropped sample problems all went away when I built my new computer around a motherboard that used a 100% Intel chipset. Until that time, I was questioning every other piece of equipment that I had. Turns out that everything else worked fine. It was the computer that was screwing up.
This disucussion was actually about dropped (rather than extra) samples...not added - but still of interest perhaps...