uh.......go back and read this thread all the way through. We have tried and no luck.

uh......got any better ideas?

As far as empathy's long post it seams totally logical that its the IRQ and its affects on the PCI slots. I posted a while back on how I was able to work around the devilDR32 by reinstalling my SB Live 5.1 Plat fresh and installing only some of the creative apps. Worked great till about oh............today. The devil is back hosing up my shutdown. To my surprise the only thing that I have done recently was adjust the placement of my PCI cards(specificlly SB) to add some space for a new USB 2.0 card.

Looks like i'll be switching back to the old set up.......I'll let you know.