As posted, I have a Asus CUBX Motherboard, a Soundblaster Live 5.1 Audio Card, a Hercules Prophet II MX AGP Video Card, A Hollywood+ DVD Decoder Card, an Adaptec 2930CU SCSI Host adapter and a Realtek Network Interface Card. All of these worked in perfect harmony under Windows 98. Enter Windows ME. All work fine until I install the Soundblaster Live. I recognizes that there is Multimedia Hardware installed in the Systems Properties box. The problem begins when I load the drivers (WIN ME) resident on the installation disk. (I have a second computer running a similar configuration that works fine, which is where the knowledge for the next sentence comes into play). When I install the drivers, Windows SHOULD find a Creative Multimedia Device, a PCI Input Controller, Creative SB16 Emulation and Creative SBL!ve series drivers. On this computer, it only installs the Multimedia Device and the PCI input device. It then pauses and says it's finished and to restart the computer. So I restart. I notice that the IRQ assignments show the Input device as having an IRQ of NA. When Windows Boots, I have no sound. When I open the System Properties box, I see that the Creative Multimedia Device is in error and the Input Device Drivers haven't loaded. Upon checking, there are NO conflicts with any resource. The warning tab simply states that the "Mc***(can't remember).vxd driver could not be loaded. Please reinstall the drivers". I do so and there is NO change. So I reloaded Windows ME and made the Soundblaster Live the first and ONLY hardware installed. NO change again. It's not a conflict with another piece of hardware, but it seems, rather, to be a conflict with Soundblaster's DOS (SB16) Emulation due to the fact that it cannot get past that particular driver when loading the Creative supplied drivers. I have updated Firmware, Bios and Drivers to the most current on ALL my hardware to include the motherboard. I have tried reserving every IRQ and DMA individually for Legacy. I have disabled ACPI (to the best of my ability). I have swapped PCI slots. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING changes this situation. I give up. Can anyone help me?