After reading the Bios and Info stuff when I switched on my PC, it usually come to a halt(freeze) when initializing plug & play......actually I've never seen this message before. It reads 'Initializing plug & play cards Card-01 Creative ViBRA16X pnp ' How could i bypass this point when I cannot even edit any files in MS-DOS mode. I can get through the BIOS setup, but what in there is important o relatively will help? If someone could tell me what to do? AK47

Not completely sure what you're asking... although I would suspect a problem with the Creative sound card or its drivers. You may have an option in BIOS for PnP Operating System - you could try switching it off... or you could remove the card (?) Have you checked to ensure that the card is firmly seated or tried switching slots. Is the card new to the machine, or did this 'just start'? Can you get into Safe Mode or access Device Manager to look for problems? (You are running Win9x, I gather?)

Seems to be that BIOS is having a problem initializing the sound card, PnP style. If it's locking up at that, then it's way before windows or even Dos boot stage. Remove the sound card , and try rebooting to see if it will boot normally, or hang on the next item of PnP. If it goes to normal boot , then suspect a problem with the sound card, or at least it's contacts in the slot. Try replacing it in a different slot, and boot again. If it hangs up on the next item of PnP, then suspect BIOS settings and post back here with more about your bios options.

I am not sure it was the same thing, but I had a Creative PnP configuration manager for Win 3.1 that would do something like that--freeze instead of loading a line in the config.sys. The only thing I ever found to get around it is to reboot.

Yeah, it's not the drivers... that just slipped out *sg* Still, possibly something might be reported in device manager, but definitely check the P&P settings or for physical problems.