Help! Screwy Mobo

I've been messing around with my comp re-installing everything and a strange thing happened after I re-installed my mobo drivers for the fourth time.. it had 'Device #2' whenever I had a drop down to select the device and this would work perfectly. It did this for my modem and my network card. Alas I have no sound still.. I've tried the AC'97 on-board and two different sound cards (SQ1500 and SQ2500) repeatedly. The speakers are Boston Digital BA735 that came with my friend's Gateway and I see no reason they wouldn't work on mine although I can't test any other speakers/headphones on it. Whenever I have ever installed the sound card it said on bootup it isn't in the primary PCI slot whatever that means.. I have tried the damn card in every PCI slot in my mobo and it has said this. According to Windows ME everything works just fine, but in a stroke of stupidity I removed the '#1' devices figuring the #2 would stay and work but once I removed the '#1' that did nothing so far as I know they did not work anymore so I'm back to where nothing works except the video card. Please help me this makes no sense and I am confused as hell...

config:
P4 1.4ghz
Abit TH7-RAID mobo
AGP ATI Radeon VE video card
Aureal SQ2500 sound card
Boston Acoustics Digital BA735 speaker system
Creative Modemblaster PCI modem
Realtek PCI network card

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I'm starting to believe you.. I've got everything except sound output working now. I think it might be the speakers because microphone seems to work with it. I keep getting this stupid error about my sound card not being in the primary PCI bus tho.. I don't even know if my mobo has a primary PCI bus!

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