I was setting some things in Windows lately when I have found some things about my sound. During bootup the sound always stuttered, but then it was OK.

Later i set "Limit usage of DMA under 16mb" and sound is now clear.

Card is Soundblaster Live 5.1 with WDM drivers. I have 1,5gb ram running on 1 gb with 512mb ramdisk and modified autoexec and config.sys. I just dont have any idea why this works for sound...

I have seen this often, with various sound cards. (or heard as the case may be)

Just as an observation, might want to check out

this interesting look into how 9x intializes memory

on Raymond Chens blog.

http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/...8/14/54640.aspx

Fascinating glimpse into the world of those who did the

programing work.

Jake