The Devil made me do IT!

[amigadave]

@ blobrana,  I tried both setups in the BIOS for the on board sound.  My mistake is that I purchased the 64 bit XP Pro instead of the regular 32 bit version.  The drivers for the 64 bit version are incomplete and it rejects some setup.exe files from the device install CD-ROMs  I might try to return XP64 in exchange for the regular version of XP Pro.

[amigadave]

@DonnyEMU,

I know the 64bit XP Pro is faster, but since this machine is primarily for my 12 year old son, I think the older, more mature regular XP Pro would have been a better choice.  I have not physically moved the computer from it's original build location to my son's desk where an Internet connection is available yet.  I will do so as soon as I can lift it or have someone else move it (back trouble).  I know that most of the drivers I need will probably be available, but think that the XP64 is going to be more work for a while and the problems are going to be over my son's head and maybe over mine.  I use a Mac primarily and only use Windows at work where there is a large I.T. department to fix any problems.

Thanks for the offer to help, I will take you up on that offer in PM if I am still having trouble after I download the drivers.

As for PPC, that may be an option that I would consider for myself, but not a machine for my son, his games and his school work.

[amigadave]

This post is coming from my Son's new XP x64 computer!  All drivers found and installed, just waiting for AF 2005 to arrive so I can load a bunch of Amiga software and test it out.  The next hardware addition will be a Catweazle PCI card and a FDD for Amiga only use (I decided not to include a FDD in the original build for Win XP).  I guess I'll install the free games that came bundled with the MB and GPU, Thief, Far Cry and Joint Operations - Typhoon Rising, to test the CPU & GPU performance while we are waiting for AF 2005 to arrive.