You have received excellent advice. If you haven't succeeded , I have something else to try. This came from an old computer technician book, don't remember the name. It was written during the Win 95/98 era. The book had an entire chapter (about 50 pages) in it concerning audio cards. The reason was that the author believed that most PC installation problems resulted from problems with the audio card. At that time the audio card required more i/o resources than any other single component in the computer. Probably still does.
His suggestion to resolve an installation problem:
Remove all components except audio and video card.
Install the audio drivers first, and make sure it is working.
Next install video card drivers.
Then install other components.
You will have to reboot several times during this procedure.
If this doesn't work, try changing the slots sequence for your PCI components. Then go through above procedure again. May sound funny, but sometimes changing slots is all it takes to prod a problem card into action.
I actually had to use this method to set up a problem computer couple years ago. Good luck.
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