EMU 0404 - windows boot hangs, no sound!

ASUS P48SX motherboard
Sapphire ATI Radeon graphics card
This problem has been reported on internet forums, but I have found no solution so far:
On installing the software, the device worked fine and i was able to listen to audio and record audio using cubase sx 1.02. The software was installed having formatted my drive and reinstalling windows xp and service pack 2, cubase and propellerhead reason and nothing else. On the next few boots, the computer would hang during the windows xp splash screen. Windows would occasionally load on cold boots only and audio can rarely be heard.
Either the device will appear to work fine, with the volume level faders appearing to work properly and audio playing back but just not audible, or this will occur for the first 3 seconds of a track being played (in windows media player) and then the track would freeze until moved on with the cursor, then play for another 3 seconds, and so on, or the device would work and i can use it as i please.
Each time i have tried loading a session into patchmix that i saved when the card was operational and i know should allow me to hear audio and record it, but this does not help. I have also tried upgrading the drivers and patchmix to v1.08 from 1.07 with no luck.
I have tried setting the bios to manage pci devices instead of the operating system, moving the device into a new slot (although device was originally in an unshared slot), to no avail. When i moved the card and reinstalled the software. it worked for a few boots, then the audio started to clip even with the output faders turned down, and then a couple of hours later when i returned to the pc nothing could be heard and windows could not communicate with the device! argh!!
This seems to be a common problem amongst users to i hope you can help!
Regards,
Dom

Thanks Dom. I think I have the solution now, although I only had a short time to test this last light as finished working on the PC at 1:30 am.. Didn't need to try the unintsall SP2 approach. After retrying several previous steps and also editing the BIOS to disable legacy PC Sound, I was thinking about the fact that the PC only had an issue when .wav files were being played or processed and did some intensive internet searching on this subject. I eventually discovered a note on Dell's site at the download centre...
http://support.dell.com/support/down...2&fileid=78796
....This download page advised of one of the fixes for the BIOS on the Dimension 4300 was fix number 5:
"Fixed hang problem with Creative Audigy and large sound samples"
I wondered whether the same issue that affected the Audigy cards might affect the 0404 and the fact that it said "large sound samples" would clearly apply - I am mostly using 24Bit samples.... I downloaded the latest BIOS and applied it. When I rebooted I disabled all the legacy sound elements I could, and tried Win amp, WMP and Reason in sequence with different files and all were fine.... and sounded excellent. I dodn't know my Genelecs were so good! What's surprising is that I didn't get hangs before I installed the 0404 so I still can't explain that.... perhaps EMU handles them different at operating system level since it has on board effects and stuff.. Anyway, any issues with hanging guys- chekc the latest BIOS for your machine as well as the drivers, services packs and stuff. I spent about 20 hours in total fixing this - about 10 of which were spent watching the PC freeze and reboot ..fun shouldn't be this much hard work {:-|
One thing I was wondering - does anyone habe any truly accurate refernce guide to "tweaks" for XP audio users? I know there are lots of magazine articles but wonder whether you have any good reference material on this. I have disabled some services over time, but there may be lots more I can do to improve performance.

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