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As to your suggestion of looking at the IRQ situation, I did that and found that the 2496 card is listed as IRQ 19 along with 4 other things under IRQ 19 as well.





You don't say what the other devices are, but in my experience it really is best to try to put that soundcard on its own IRQ.

With Windows XP and forward, the only way we have to do that anymore is to move the card to another PCI slot and try again. Hope to get lucky.

***That nonworking hard drive could be causing all sorts of problems for you if it is still connected to the IDE bus and the power supply. Open 'er up and disconnect the cables to that drive and try again. The same could apply if the drive is SATA. Disconnect it from both power and data lines.


--Mac