>>I have sound, but it sounds horrific. It's very scratchy--even system >>sounds from Gnome sound bad. Also with sound on my clock keeps jumping >>forward. My system seemed to act fairly good with sound turned off in >>my BIOS. >> >> > I'm wondering if I should go buy a SBLive or something. >Does anyone have any idea if this has a chance of fixing my sound >problem? > > I have the same board. If you read the reviews, they talk about the lousy sound for the onboard. I use it as a server so never even bothered trying the sound. But yes, purchasing a SB card would help. Mike