Hi Sherry,

Yep, it's a heck of an adventure for one whose knowledge is pinched enough that yesterday didn't even know what IRQ meant. Windows Help and Support says you shouldn't change them, else you might not be able to install anything else, but I noticed that there were some vacant numbers in the list--or maybe they just don't exist to be filled. . . yep, it's like looking for your glasses in a blackout.

This is something that anyone installing a new sound card might get, or so the impression I'm getting from Creative support goes. I'm afraid it's going to take a rather long time since, possibly because of location?, it takes two days per message to and from Creative; however, I have to assume they know how to fix the problem. Apparently there is a file that either exists somewhere in the Creative directory that one can download and run that diagnoses the system, that you can save as a text file, send to Creative, and will tell them what they need to know to give directions for a fix. I do rather wonder why they didn't just have me do this first.

I miss being able to write music and there is some music that looks interesting, recently posted, that I would like to hear when it is not made to sound by MS Wavetable Synth like the hurdy-gurdy man is going through the village with the monkey leading a cow with a bell around its neck. I could use MSWT to compose, I guess, but getting the best sound out of that (which would be relatively bad) would result in an enormous amount of editing when the A and B Synths are available.

Oh, yes, I mentined that I was going to try disabling the network (Linksys adapter), since it is one of the devices on the same IRQ number as SB. I did. Midi worked for about an hour and a half, though there was still some (but not frequent, for once) static. Perhaps that was coming from the Intel Universal USB host controller, or whatever it's called.

So, there is hope.

best,
mgj