It's working now with the video card in PCI 1, ATA-133 in PCI 2, and SB Live in PCI 3. I haven't reinstalled the USB/Firewire and the TV cards yet, but Windows' installation of SB16 Emulation completed successfully (which I have now safely marked "Not in this Hardware Profile" to deactivate it). David Gillett On 6 Jan 2004 at 4:53, [log in to unmask] wrote: > In a message dated 1/6/2004 12:50:03 AM Eastern Standard Time, > [log in to unmask] writes: > Well, the PCI slot that is documented as sharing an IRQ with the AGP slot > is where I've installed the PCI video card, so I don't think that's it. > > I downloaded a replacement NTKERN.VXD file, and the problem shifted to > where Windows now detects "SB16 emulation" and attempts to install a driver > for it -- and hangs there. > I've been able to find a couple of suggested fixes for that, but the > latest is that it won't boot at all. It looks almost like a hard drive > failure, except that I get the same lack of activity after the ROM portion > of the boot when I boot directly from a floppy. > > So my current plan is to take out everything but the video, and gradually > re-add cards. I'll experiment with putting the SB!Live into a different > slot as part of that process, and see what new strangeness results. > > David Gillett > Hi, > Make sure you are using the latest version of drivers for it as well. I had > a similar probkem, and had to disable SB16 emulation, or it would hang the > system, as yours does (not a big deal, SB16 emulation is only used for ancient > DOS based games sound anyway). > > > HTH, > Peter Hogan > [log in to unmask] > Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://freepctech.com/pcbuild.shtml