As for the motherboard, I think it's a great value. I overclocked to 3.5 the first time I booted LOL. It runs great. Stock volts, stock Intel cooling.
As for the sound. It worked with another copy of windows on a different HD. It's just the HD I'm running now has a new install of XP sp2 and it doesn't work. I can put my old HD back in and no problem. So..... if anyone knows where to get, or what is this "microsoft bus driver" please let me know. Thanks