Hi Tom, I've got the Soundblaster Live, 1024 I think, and since I upgraded from win '98 to XP on the home pc, I've had a similar thing. My sound card didn't work at all at the upgrade, nor with SP2, and I had to get help to go find XP drivers on the net for this card. It's working, but there's a little blip or a skip when jaws finishes what it's saying, but I can live with it. Have you tried going into device manager and checking if there's any better drivers available for your card? Cheers, Robin. -----Original Message----- From: jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tom Reid Sent: 09 January 2005 11:21 To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [jaws-uk] Crackling on with eloquence Eloquence seems to have started crackling big time with my jaws 5.1: Have recently upgraded computer though sound card and video are as before. George suggested I check my connections and at least externally, they seem to be tight. Is there anything else that I can do? A nuissance rather than a disaster. Tom