[tsimpson]

I did some tests last night and indeed as you said once the soundblaster is not there all is well.

You can disable the sound blaster card through the windows 98 device manager.

On our system you dont even have to reload simply disable the the device in this configuration via the properties on the device manager

do your work on microedit

then reenable the device to do any work that requires the soundblaster card.

Although its far from ideal it is a workable solution.

but I look forward to anything you can do to enable us to use both systems together

Tim