On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 00:51 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > Once in a blue moon, I had to remove my old soundblaster card, > boot up, boot down again, replace the card, then re-boot. For whatever > reason, it worked just peachy. IRQ issue or me fudging something up, > doing that procedure put things to rights. Quite likely that you have a poor edge connector plug and socket issue. Next time you take it out, try cleaning the contacts properly, and see if that improves things. Another problem can be related - boxes that aren't very rigid, and they pull the cards out when they change shape. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.