Jacob, Have you examined the assignment of interrupts to your sound card and your ethernet card? Are they perhaps attempting to share an IRQ? Some cards are more sensitive than others to IRQ sharing. I have no information about your particular sound card, but it would be easy to check. Chuck -- The Moon is Waning Gibbous (78% of Full) But you can still get downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh