Quake3World

Sometimes when I reboot my soundcard won't be recognised as being in my system, so I powerdown, stick it in a different slot and XP finds it again. That has happened 3 times. Same thing just happened this morning with my Ethernet card for my modem, and was fixed with the same procedure.

XP has been playing up a bit lately, it's been ages since I reinstalled. Please tell me it's an XP problem and not a motherboard issue.

could be a setting in your systems bios.

i recall it's something like

Let OS or WINDOWS manage resources
Yes or No

or

PNP OS Installed: Set it to Yes to to allow your Plug & play compatible operating system, e.g. Windows 98, to manage resources. Setting it to No will let the BIOS handle this.

How do I get into BIOS?

link to bios FAQ .. typically it's the delete button

http://www.dewassoc.com/support/bios/bios_1.htm

OK thanks, i'll give it a go next time the problem happens.