great news. er, i'm not about to switch to win2k since i have a Creative SBLive! soundcard as well - can't you hear all the righteous howling of hapless SBLive! win2k owners all the way from the creative.products.sound_blaster.live forum? but perhaps a new scsi adapter would help. can you tell a little about yours and any futzing you had to go through to get to work?