Sound card probs?

[Squirrel]

Hi,

I've recently added a 60Gb ibm 7200rpm drive as second drive on my primary IDE channel

(I have a dvd rom and CD RW on the other channel)

I am running win98se as an OS with a Geforce video card and SB Live sound card.

Since I've added the new drive, whenever I am accessing the drive while the pc is producing sound (EG. saving a game in DEUS EX, the game saves but the sound goes screwie and takes a couple of minutes to go back to normal).

All my music is stored on the new drive and if I run MP3 player, all will work for about 20 mins thene the machine will go silent and eventually crash.

I have reinstalled the newest sound drivers, I have used partition magic and created a new bootable partition and reinstalled Win98SE, but the same thing is happening.

WHAT IS HAPPENING??? bought MechWarrior4 last week but I can't play it as the speaker emit a high pitched screeming while playing. the only time it played the music properly was when the game is paused...!!!

HELP me please...

[Squirrel]

BTW, I have installed games previously on the c: (13gb primary drive) without any probs, and no interference on the sound system was caused...

No more space left on the Primary drive as I have multiple boot partitions for various OS, training etc..

[Squirrel]

Creative Labs have advised me to swap the HD's around, but thats the thing i'll have to do as a very last resort.

Any Ideas?

[VERT]

Yeah creative labs are good for f**k all support, ok, you can try what they've asked, although I dont think this will solve ur problem (but it doesn't hurt to try), you could also try changing the PCI slot your SBLive is in, this solved a problem I had ages ago. I trust you are using the latest drivers too (soundcard and chipset). The via chipset (if u have one of these) has some issues with the SBlive cards that has just been resolved by a new driver. hope this helps