Rebuilt my fic 503+ via mvp3 mb with win 98, viper 550 agp, sb awe64 isa and pc modem. everything works fine except the sb.

I can't play any games with sound. No sound comes out. I can play wav, mid and cd music fine.

The one thing that I noticed was weird is that my agp card took irq5 and the sb card took irq9. I have always seem sound cards on irq5, maybe 7, but not 9. I read that irq9 should be reserved for the system. I think my problem lies in the fact that some of these games(basic games for kids, like Jumpstart Pre-k and need for speed) default to irq5 for sound.

Do I just removed the sb card, video card from device manager and reboot? someone mentioned to me about reserving/disabling irq5 for the sb card?

thanks for any input