I just hope it's not a VIA issue. Since VIA isn't exactly bug free. During their early chipsets, the Apollo3, the PCI bus had issues where our router card would stop working intermittenly different times of the day.thorz said:I only have 2 PCI cards, the SB Audigy (IRQ5 forced) and a 3Com nic. Both are on not shared PCI slots. My board? Asus A7V266-E. I have the last via drivers and the last XP patches. None of my programs present any fail with sound. just WinDVD4+