XP Home Edition (Service Pack 1) Pentium 4 2.66 Ghz MS-6533 Main Board (with Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG, Version : AWARD - 42302e31 BIOS) NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra 1024 3DRAM memory Directx 9.0b Disabled the onboard sound Realtek AC97 in Bios then tried to install plug & play CMI8738/C3DX PCI Audio sound card. While the drivers loading the system rebooted for no reason and now it takes about over a minute to boot up again. When I take the card out the system boots as normal. I have no idea how to fix this so I prefer to ask you experts any idea or anybody with same issue? THANKS FOR YOUR TIME!!!

Is the new sound card showing in windows ? Try uninstalling the sound card drivers and re-installing them

Hi MRT Dunno what you mean about sound card showing up in windows but it is shown in the Device Manager and it is installed with no exclamation warnings next to it, however it does cause an excalamation warning to sometimes show next to something called 'USB Mass Storage Device' could this be to do with resources? I tried uninstalling the sound card drivers and took out the card booted up then switched off and put the card back in but when windows found the card it installed the drivers for it so I cant have cleaned them or removed them right? I have Driver Cleaner 2.6 and it has Creative sound card drivers that it can remove and tried that but no luck. Can you suggest anything that can clean C-Media Audio Drivers? Thanks for your help anyway!

Found that there was x2 Game Ports under the Sound, Video, and game controllers in the Device Manager and so disabled the one belonging to the Motherboard and now it boots much faster from about 1 minute 40 seconds to about 25 seconds! It says: Audeo Codecs CMI8738/C3DX PCI Audio Device Legacy Audio Drivers Legacy Video Capture Device Media Control Devices MPU-401 Compatible MIDI Device Standard Game Port (Disabled) Standard Game Port Unimodem Half-Duplex Audio Device Video Codecs Maybe some of these belong to the onboard sound Realtek AC97 that I disabled in BIOS? But disabling the Game Port belonging to the motherboard made a big difference. Thanks for your advice!