how is that? Well.... To determine which driver should be installed, Windows reads out the DeviceID of the hardware. Then it looks for inf files that contain driver information, and when it finds a match it installs the driver that belongs to this inf file. So I think that the DeviceID's of IBM's and ASUS' SoundMAX drivers are identical, which would explain this error. Please remove the Drivers\S\SM\I folder and try again! Bâshrat the Sneaky did that same problem