I am guessing that you have an IBM sound card... I know that they need to be renewed with each install... I don't think its an eprom, though, I think its a... (forgot the term... a programable chip.. dss or something). >yesterday my wife formated c drive and when findind hardware our soundcard >kept getting the bios was not prompting. we went to the web page nd the >information was on the driver's floppy. had to remove the right protection to >read the hiden file to retrive the bios from the floppy. We spent hours trying >to figure out why we lost our sound card. I thought that on eprom chipsthat >you had to use ultra vilet light to erace the memory from these chips. does >any one now what happened so we will make sure not to do that again. Thanks >Steve Coldwell > > > PCBUILD: http://nospin.com or [log in to unmask] > PCBUILD: http://nospin.com or [log in to unmask]