1. Have you tries uninstalling the AWE64 Gold and seeing if that helps. 2. Do you have a modem attached to your PC? If so, disable it and try that. 3. Any network cards? If so, disable it and try that. Note. if you have a modem you will at least have TCP/IP networking installed. 4. Check the IRQ settings and see which of the PCI cards is sharing with which. My guess is that the crash and reinstall has caused a different IRQ grouping and this is the source of the problem. Strange that only LAWP seems to be affected. Another thought ? Did you install Direct X before LAWP or did you use the version on the LAWP CD ? I believe it is hard to go backward with Direct X but as I understand it, LAWP is fussy about which version of the Direct X Runtime Media is installed. Hope some of this helps, Ray