Regarding your SB16 problem, I think that's some kind of resource issue. I noticed that the other day myself, when I was testing Duke Nukem 3D. The game would pause for about half a second every 5 - 10 seconds. I altered the card's address to 300H (from 330H), and I also attempted to disable its onboard CD-ROM controller. As I did both at the same time, I wasn't sure which action fixed the problem, but it was OK after that. Try messing about with the card's resources, and see if that fixes the problem. You could try and alter its address, see if there's any unused CD-ROM controller you can disable, also look at any other unwanted resources the card has got enabled, and set them to disabled. What CT model number is it?

CT2740... It's also missing the ASP (I think it is) chip if that matters.

How do I disable the CD controller? It has it, but it's no being used right now. Is there a jumper for it?

Oh, and it has CT1747 on the chip it self.

Looks like it's for a Panasonic CD-ROM drive. Check this page out -

http://artofhacking.com/th99/i/C-D/53590.htm

As for disabling the CD-ROM drive controller, I don't know how to do this because there doesn't appear to be an onboard jumper available to do this. Therefore, maybe there is a utility that you need to run (from the original installation software for instance), which will allow you to disable this type of resource?

There are quite a few knowledgeable Soundblaster people on this forum - hopefully someone knows more about this...

Sorry I can't offer any insights on the sound card, but I'll comment on some of the other points.

That board should handle a 120GB hard drive just fine. It's only when you get above 128GB that things get dodgy.

What OS(es) are you planning to run? I assume you know that Win9x won't support dual processors, but some older games don't like an NT-based OS, so I'm curious what you're planning to do with that.

Also, why an ISA network card? I mean, they work OK, but I wouldn't choose one over a newer PCI card unless I was absolutely out of free PCI slots.

Plannin on running windows 2000 SP4.

As for the network card, its because its the only one I have that works right and I just want to use it. Not like its gonna get heavy traffic.

With XP at least, on my Abit BF6 that has the 137gig limit, I can see the full drive size of larger drives. The drivers must bypass BIOS limitations.

I have a feeling that 2K may not do that, but I'm not sure.

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Well, got the board. It's in really good shape, all the capacitors are in good shape. Was missing a BIOS battery... had one though. Haven't tested it yet though, need to order a new PSU and Case from newegg.

With XP at least, on my Abit BF6 that has the 137gig limit, I can see the full drive size of larger drives. The drivers must bypass BIOS limitations.

Have you tried filling the drives past the 128GB mark, though? Because AFAIK it's not possible for Windows drivers to bypass the BIOS limitations.

I vaguely recall that some boards would appear to recognize larger drives, but once you hit the BIOS limit, they'd start over at the beginning of the drive, and overwrite anything you already had on there. That would, of course, suck rather epically.