> lead to data loss or corruption or even to system crashes (windows 
> oriented sites). It seems like additional DMA traffic can enhance the 
> problem, soundblaster cards are known to very problematic.
> 
> It looks like deactivating "PCI Delay Transaction" and "PCI Master 
> Read Caching" and setting "PCI Latency" to a value of 0 to 32 will 
> eliminate the problem also, at the cost of some performance.

this is hardware problem of VIA chip i think. with linux you need to do
the same.