I've been running Win2K Pro for less than one week. Most things have been running OK except sound and USB. The card is recognized and installed fine (Creative SB16 Ensoniq PCI) but no sound comes out. Only MIDI formats like rmi or mid produce actual sounds. Wavs, MP3s and any CD or game sounds show they are playing but don't come through. It's somewhat intermittent, all sounds worked at first, then they didn't, then they did again but now it's only the MIDI stuff. Weird. I've tried the Win98 and NT drivers to no avail. Could it be format specific codecs that got lost or corrupted somehow? That's all I can come up with. Also, USB support is non-existant on my machine. It finds the controller built in to my mobo (Gigabyte GA-5X w/the latest BIOS) but only one of the two ports function. I also have a 2 port PCI card that is totally unrecognized. I emailed the cards manu. and all they said was wait until after Win2K is released for drivers (even though it never had any drivers of it's own). So, anyone who's read this rambling cry for help, do these things sound familiar at all? Is it Win2K or my crappy hardware (A judgement which I'm perfectly willing to accept).

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