Sound card + Abit KR7A = WTF!?!?!?!

[JCB]

Heres the deal. As some of you know im building a new comp with and kr7a mobo. Everything was going fine yesterday untill I went to install the sound card (hercules fortissimo II). After I plugged the card in, the POST wouldnt show the dvd drive (SONY) or the burner (SONY). I was getting weird error messages like "invalid system disk" like when you boot off of a floppy. I couldnt get the comp to boot up at all so I thought the card was bad so I took it to back to best buy and got a new one. Had pretty much the same trouble with the new card but I did get it in the comp and installed the drivers but after re-booting the comp would hang right after windows was in the process of loading. I was able to go into safe mode but couldnt get the card to work so I took it back to best-buy and swapped it for a philips rhythmic edge card and am having the same damn problem as the first card. The POST wont show my D or E drives and I am getting more weird error messages. What the hell is up with this thing?!?!? As of right now here is what is installed on the comp.
Abit - kr7a mobo
amd 1.7 gig athlon xp cpu
256 megs pc2100 crucial ddr ram
wd 40 gig 7200 rpm ata/100 hd
antec pp303xp ps (300 watts)
ati radeon 7000 64 meg agp vid card
floppy
sony dvd
sony burner
via 4 in 1 4.33 drivers.
As of right now the vid card is the only card in the comp and there is a clean install of windows. I dont know what the problem could be.....any ideas?
:confused:

[Floppyman]

Hi,

Have you tried the soundcard in a different pci slot? Also, did you make any changes in the CMOS when you first put the computer together and installed windows or is it still using the defaults? HTH

[JCB]

Hi, floppy
On the first soundcard I tried every available free slot and still had the same problem. And I didnt make any changes in the BIOS either.

[Kubie]

JCB,
I just read the review of your board and it says it has onboard sound. Did you disable it via jumper or in the BIOS?
Carl

[Toaster]

Howdy,
This sounds like a conflicting IRQ 15 of a conflicting I/I address. I assume the CD/DVD drives are on the secondary controllers. The secondary controller (IDE) requires IRQ-15.
The other possibility is a conflicting I/O address. You might try "forcing" these resources via BIOS and assigning these manually.
Try yet another PCI slot and be sure the onboard sound is disabled.
If you have other PCI cards installed, make sure you have resources available. In no case should IRQ 14 and 15 be shared.

[Blakhart]

You may try disabling acpi and assigning irqs manualy?

[JCB]

I cleared the CMOS and everything seems to be running fine now. The manual says PCI slots 1 and 4 share IRQ's with other devices so I have avoided those slots all together and its running much better now.:D

BTW, Carl this mobo does not have onbaord sound. You must have been reading a review for another mobo.

[Kubie]

JCB,
My bad!!
Sorry about that.
Carl