I have changed soundcards. Ensoniq to Soundblaster. I have a Gateway P5-200. I have 32MB of RAM. I changed the hardware and when I loaded the software and drivers it froze up. Then I loaded the software again. It froze up again. When I tried to reboot, it would freeze up at the Windows screen. I could only proceed in safe mode where I had to disable the soundcard. After that it would boot fine, but alas no sound. The techs at Creative don't seem to be able to help.