HELP ASUS Vintage AH1 And Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Mu

I have a weird problem.
I have an ASUS vintage ah system with an AMD 2200+ 64bit processor
ATI PCIE Vidcard (X800 GTO Squared)
I added the soundcard today, replacing my audigy 4. Soundcard purchased : Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music
When i booted the pc, it posts ok, then when windows xp and vista rc both get to the moving blue or green bar it just stops dead. Harddri've light is out, no disk activity, it stays this way indeffinately.
I've tried shutting off all bios options, i've flashed to latest BIOS and no joy.
I tried the card in my second pentium 4 machine and it boots fine.
What the hell is goin on?
Anyone else seen any weird incompatabilities or have this card running on a vintage ah?
Thanks

Hi,
That is probably a fault with the card. I'd contact your retailer or our customer service (contact us on the top menu)..
They'll be able to get the card replaced.
John

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