Hi, I posted a message a little while ago, but it didtn't really get solved, although I think I narrowed down the problem. this is the problem: I use a voodoo banshee card (AGP). I have a PCI-soundcard (Ensonic ES1370 with chip on it from creative labs) PCI-NIC (D-link) When I don't use the soundcard, there aren't any problems. If I do use the card, strange artifacts appear on the screen, especially where the startmenu from windows used be on the desktop. when the menu closes because I clicked something. If I pause the music, that doesn't happen anymore. If I take a screenshot with print screen however, these strange stripes appear again on the screenshot, even though it wasn't visible on the screen. If I look closer at this stripes, I can see that it is actually 3 stripes, a blue a green and a magenta one. all at the same distance. So I was thinking. Could it be that when I play sound, that it is demanding to much resources from the PCI-bus or somthing, causing the AGP-card not to fuction proparly? Johan

hello since your running linux it makes this one a little hard to figure. the verical lines in windows would be a bad driver. but in linux it could veary well be lack of system resources.i saw one post simaler to your but was useing red hat 9. any irq conflicts?

Oops, sorry about that. I have 2 systems, 1 running suse (which I use as a server, the other 1 is running windows 2000 and debian. the last system is the one I'm having problems with). Those strange stripes are mainly in windows. they sometimes appear in linux, but I'm think it is a driverproblem there. I just want a solution for windows. No IRQ conflicts (anymore). I tried different drivers. I pulled out the sound card, I changed the NIC, nothing helped. Now someone suggested that my RAM migth not be seated very good, so I'm going to try that tomorrow. Johan