I have no idea what happen to my soudn card, i ended up buying a new Sound Blaster Audigy SE and when I started to install it, it said Cannot find hardware, when i put the card in also nothing poped up to say "new hardware found". im not sure what happen, also my windows XP theme is somehow gone, i am stuck with the old grey blocky style from windown 98. When i tried to reinstall windows xp (by making my computer start up with disc drive and not hard drive). The installation of windowns xp did not work how i planed, it seemed to freeze up at the begginig it only got to the part where is says somethign like "Retrieving Driver Congfiguration...."