Thanks for your quick reply....
I tried it out and it found an Ensoniq card which it says is disabled but might be able to work if I set PnP OS to "no" in my BIOS....
In KControl under Information -> PCI it says it finds a Sound Controller of the type Ensoniq and Subsystem states "SoundBlaster", so it might work.... I will try the BIOS change...
Another thought is that it might be an IRQ conflict that shows in WIndows between the internal modem and the soundcard... So I will also try to yank out the modem (which I won't be using anymore anyway) and see if that solves it....
Thanks for your assistance, I'll be back if I need further help... feel free to post more ideas/thoughts if you got any
Edit ->
oh.. btw... When I shut down I get a [
FAILURE ] on "Trying to save mixer settings" or something like that.... But it seems a bit obvious as the soundcard won't work...