I found what corrected this issue was by turning off the computer, removing the sound card and installing in a different socket. What a STUBBORN clean install this was. Ran into all kinds of issues for whatever reason. So far so good. All this was on the the parts machine that I put back together.

Thanks for all the help people.

GQuote from: 69Z28 on April 29, 2010, 07:59:29 AM

I found what corrected this issue was by turning off the computer, removing the sound card and installing in a different socket. What a stubborn clean install this was. Ran into all kinds of issues for whatever reason. So far so good. All this was on the the parts machine that I put back together.
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Now that you're a computer technogeek, cards get installed into slots, not sockets. The slots consist of edge-card connectors which can be ISA, EISA, AGP, PCI, PCI-Express (1x & 16x). RAM slots are edge card connectors, too. There are also card connectors with pins, but you'll never see them on a PC.

CPU's get installed into sockets (ZIF sockets, i.e. Zero Insertion Force) except for the Slot 1 CPU mentioned earlier. These cpu's are mounted to a card, along with the fan within the plastic housing shown.