I feel your pain. I'm having he same problem with a firewire card and various sound cards on this machine. Stick 'em in the PCI slot, producer says Windows will detect the hardware and add it accordingly, then -- NOTHING! I'm quite bewildered myself. Grr...

And, I have one up on you on cases. I had a couple of old machines donated to me, and they have plenty of good parts in them, only -- I can't get to them! The cases are horribly built, as screws necessar to remove the various drives are positioned so that no screwdriver can reach them without having gymnastic capabilities. The case is built so you can't reach anything to remove it.