"boe" wrote in message
newsBIGc.3192$WX.2223@attbi_s51...
You mention disabling the sound - are you doing it in the bios?

"JustDave" wrote in message
.. .
This morning I turned off the motherboard audio, removed the drivers,
and
installed an Audigy Gamer in my 3 GHz Intel D865PERL based computer. It
works great and sounds much better and quieter than the Intel
motherboard
audio.

Trouble is, it also kills my network connection. When I try an ipconfig
/renew, I get the message "An operation was attempted on something that
is
not a socket". If I pull the card and roll Windows XP Pro back to
yesterday
everything is OK again. As soon as I stick the card back in, Windows
installs a driver (or something!), which causes the problem to reappear.
There's no hardware conflict (network is dead with drivers and no
card) -
just some software problem. I've looked in the MS Knowledgebase and
searched
Google, but none of the solutions there worked for me.I've been going
around
and around with this since noon and need a clue. Any ideas will be much
appreciated.


Thanks to everyone for their suggestions.

No luck yet. Diabling Hyperthreading - no help. Letting both sets of drivers
load - no help. Leaving both sound cards in ( onboard enabled or disabled in
BIOS) or out, no difference. If the latest version drivers downloaded from
Creative are loaded, the network doesn't run - audio hardware or none. Tried
different versions of the network driver. MB BIOS is up to date (had the
problem with an earlier version, too). Losing mind quickly...