all drivers current and accounted for. I seem to have a special gift when it comes to electronics. I have been working on computers for the better part of 6 years now as a hobby and know my way around quite well.
To most Murphy's law is a probability, for me it is a universal constant. I just adapted another one of my procedures to minimize the law

If it works when I am using it, the computer won't have an issue with most other people
sound.act seems to give me trouble and I think I have a gremlin in there somewhere. SH4 will crash showing the fault module as sound.act but I don't have a clue.