The other day, my sound card suddenly decided to try and take over the memory address of my keyboard...and the results were devistating. Turning on the machine resulted in a BOD saying "Windows protection fault... System haulted" ouch! (No idea why it did this, nothing was loaded to cause this change...)

It wouldn't even load safe-mode! Well, I did need a re-format anyway...
After reloading it was working fine until I loaded the sound drivers and then it locked and wouldn't go into safe-mode again...

Now, third times a charm! I need to install the drivers for the sound and not have them active until I can change the memory address on them, does anyone know of a way to do this?

The only thing I can think of is to change the address of the keyboard before I load the sound drivers and cross my fingers...