I'm glad Noo's solution worked ....

Orangeman you seem to have lots of problems with often the wrong or confused or partial symptomology described, which was why I posted what I did ....

If you'd installed w2k (excuse my mistake, I am of course confus-ed ) correctly there is no way that would affect your 98 install whatsoever, except 'perhaps' in bios ....

The very fact that re-installing drivers in 98se fixed your problem with that o/s shows its nothing to do with your w2k install (unless the w2k setup decided to just overwite your sound drivers just to 'do your head in')

Perhaps that error was there before & you didn't notice ? .... Either way its fixed now & that was the point.

If you feel my posts are too 'sarcastic' for you, you can use the boards features to 'blank' all my replies & they won't trouble you further ...

We can only ever 'guess' based on what info you provide, it seems Noo is 'wise to you' & I am not able to second guess your descriptions of what has & hasn't happened....

In this case Noo was busy fixing your 98 install (glad that's now ok), I was speculating why a w2k (okay I said xp!) install in addition to the 98 install might mess up your original install, different question & thus a different answer, I made the mistake of assuming that the 98 install was ok in the first place, Noo, bless her little googling cotton socks, was as I say 'wise' to it.......