Recently I have upgraded my husband's system with my old MSI (MS6378) motherboard, an Athlon 1900+ XP CPU and 1GB of RAM. He's using his existing hard drives (with a fresh install of XP Home), CD and DVD drives, 3Com Ethernet PCI card and Creative Soundblaster Live Platinum card with LiveDrive. Since the installation he gets really bad sound from the soundcard when playing music (mp3's, waves and when using SoundForge) and we have tried everything we can think of to fix it. We've changed PCI slots, installed upgraded drivers (from the Creative site), changed IRQ settings from 5 to 9 in the BIOS and uninstalled and reinstalled the card and all the drivers, all to no avail. The onboard sound isn't causing a conflict as the drivers haven't been installed and it's been disabled in the BIOS. We've also checked for an updated version of BIOS from the MSI site. I used to have the MSI (with VIA chipset) motherboard installed on my old computer and used a SoundBlaster Live card with no problems and have run out of ideas now. Can anyone please help before we end up putting everying back onto his very ancient (and very slow!) Jetway motherboard!

Try the patch located on this page sLLs

Thanks for the suggestion LL. We've tried that but unfortunately it hasn't made any difference :-(