Hello! I have an HP pavilion 6330, and nothing routed through the ISA bus seems to work, although the device manager in windows not only recognizes them, but claims these ISA devices are , indeed working..this includes not only the onboard sound, but the ISA slots themseves, the parallel and serial ports, and (beleive it or not!) the onboard USB ports.. I've managed to get around this by installing PCI cards for USB and a PCI soundcard (as well as a Radeon graphics card, though the onboard video did work), and disabling the original ones in device manager, but I'd rather disable them in the bios to stop from continually having windows98 try to activate the 'new hardware wizard' if something isn't disabled in device manager (thru install progs. etc. that reenable these things- yes it happens!) The soundcard in particular (a Creative SB128 PCI 57xx something or other) is problematic as it gives me 'cannot load midi wavefile' error messages every bootup..i don't know if it's a buggy card or if the onboard sound needs disabling in the BIOS...but i cant find any place in the bios to disable either the onboard USB, sound, or video - Anyone know where these settings are,and how to disable them, or what might cause the ISA bus to be dead, or the Soundcard etc....or have any ideas here? Thanx muchly!! Dominicus

you know what your board is i'm trying to find out. so far i got itas a asus manual here http://www.motherboards.org/files/manuals/1/sp97xv-102.pdf doesnt say you can disable onboard sound but video is done using a jumper. my guess is its doen using a jumper. could you download http://www.lavalys.com/index.php?page=product&view=1&subpage=5 run that its everest it tells you make model etc. post back here with what it idetifys your mobo as Athlon xp 2000+ @1.7 pc 2100 256mb ram radeon 8500 win xp home oem several other things new pc on way

do you have another sound card? cause it may be a crummy card. by a oem one for 7 quid to test Athlon xp 2000+ @1.7 pc 2100 256mb ram radeon 8500 win xp home oem several other things new pc on way