no it wasnt butters cuz i had a Creative Live Sound Card and they are good
so? still could be a driver problem, Doesn’t mater how good a driver or sound card is, I could go in make one little chage to your ocx or sys file, and I bet you wont be here any sound. Butters point is software can effect software, So its highly possible that do to a problem your driver got wacked. Example Emulator had a driver file open, computer locks, user restarted it, computer restarts, scandisk truncates file, computer finished booting, drive no longer works, user reinstalls driver, everything is better... This is only an example to illustrate what butters is talking about. Now, for a emulator ruining your hardware that’s just nutz. They only way for software to damage hardware is to write to flash memory(BOIS) and I'm cretin no emulator is going to do or need to do that..