Yep, cleaned out the dust and followed your advice, morganlefay, in the first post. Haven't had any luck, but I do have somewhat of a "dumb" question:

The instruction manual for the card says I must have windows xp with SP1 or higher for the hardware to be recognized by the windows os. When I first installed the card and booted up I was running windows xp with no service packs. I've since installed SP2, but nothing changed. I'm wondering should I have gotten SP1 than gone to SP2? Does it matter at all?