okay.... i have a C-Media soundcard- the Thundering 5.1 model; and an Acer 50x cd-rom. when the soundcard is installed, the cd drive disappears. in other words, the BIOS can't see the drive and tells me "no cd drives found at all."

so.... when i uninstall the sound card, the cd drive comes back.... i have an MSI kt7pro2a mainboard with an AMD Duron 950 chip. i just upgraded to that board and my previous (ancient) board didn't have any problems with the sound card drivers. i have the current board and chip drivers from the MSI website.

any ideas? -TX Dave--