yup, thas installed, i have no clue what is causing this...file transfer is soooo slow.

on the good side i think i may have almost resolved my issue with AC3 output at last, just gotta restore with ghost and do it a different way this time and hopefully it wont screw up other sound card features.

gradually getting there, keep up the good ideas, thx again

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