Chipset VIA e sk.video

As far as the sound card goes this can be very testy. Especially if they control the gameport, the modem, or both along with the sound features as in some Rockwell models. If you have a sound card with a game controller or modem or both and a PCI video card, try putting the sound card in that empty PCI slot under the agp port. If you already have a AGP video card you’ll have to try other PCI slots to see which ones work with it. In the abit KT7 the 4th PCI slot seems to work best with sound. You can always assign IRQ’s specifically to different devices through the BIOS. If however you do it may be necessary to reinstall your OS along with the correct drivers. The safest rout is still to try and have the sound card by itself, or with a gameport, do not have a built in modem soundcard if possible. You’ll definitely be running stable if you have sound, modem, and game controllers on separate PCI slots. If you are running any anti-virus software be sure to put it at the end of the Autoexec.bat file and the sound/video at the beginning or vise versa so your computer doesn’t lock up when loading different devices, verifying DMI pools etc