Common Windows XP multimedia hang-ups

One other thing that I would like to add was that sometimes you will see that the sound card is sharing an irq with anther device when looking at the system resources. If you are unable to get the sound card to use its own irq, you may need to pull the card from its pci slot and move it around. Sometimes you will also need to juggle other cards around in the system just to get a configuration that will work. This goes the same for any installed peripheral card. Have fun :)