After dealing with sound card issues on one site that uses them to test audio equipment...I have found that sound cards use upto 3 IRQs and alot of memory resources...

Saying that...your issue was probably solved by moving the soung card...but then again maybe not.

From my humble experience...sound cards should be placed in the middle of the PCI s slots...and nothing should be directly beside it as it will use the resources from these adjoining slots...now this was a few years ago...but I still follow the same rule when having to add sound cards..as some of the machines require an analog (which is usually on board now) and a digital card to run the required testing on that site.

I havent had experience with XP on these machines...this was all NT\2000

Good to hear it is all fixed

MLF