I appreciate the help, however I had tried everything on the
viahardware.com, kt7 faq, Santa Cruz, Sonic Fury, Abit, and Highpoint, sites
to try to get this problem solved before I had asked my question.  At the
same time I posted here, I asked the same question in the [H]ardopc forum
http://www.hardforum.com and received a response that has almost completely
fixed the problem (I still get a little soft static through the speakers on
a few start-up and close actions).

It seems that the Epox boards with RAID are having the same problems as I
have on my Abit board, so I tried the fix recommended by the folks there for
the Epox boards.  Load and Run the old (two versions back) 1.03b1 (Beta)
drivers for the Highpoint controller.  In so doing I had to re-flash the
BIOS to the older ZT as it embeds the 1.03b1.

Thanks again,

Eric Heath

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hal Jordan" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 4:25 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] KT7-RAID


> Start spending time here:
> http://viahardware.com/
>
> Go to Paul's FAQ:
> http://www.viahardware.com/faq/kt7/kt7faq.htm

> Date:    Thu, 23 Aug 2001 20:12:37 -0700
> From:    grz <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: KT&-RAID, Highpoint Controller and Sound Card
>
> I am running Win2K with this set-up. The only way I can get the SC =
> soundcard to function properly is to disable the highpoint controller.=20
>
> This is unacceptable to me.  Has anyone run into this before? Is there a =
> work around/fix?=20

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