Oddities w/ Sound, Video Effects FC2 -- mobo-related??

[Clint Harshaw]

Hi all.

I've completed my first build of a computer and have now installed FC2 
on it. It took a few extra days to get FC2 loaded because I neglected to 
update the BIOS, as once I did that, FC2 installed without a hitch 
(Thank you to Artur Sampaio for the tip!). I've got these hardware specs:

ASUS A7V8X-X mobo
ASUS Radeon 7000 video card
Antec Sonata Case

I'm not doing anything special for the video driver. I've got selected 
the ATI Radeon 7000 video card, and the ViewSonic VG800 monitor, both of 
which were in FC2.

There are a couple things that are behaving not as expected on this 
machine compared to other machines that I have installed FC2 on, and I'm 
wondering if it has to do with my choice of mobo/video card.

1. Although I have the pc speaker connected from the case to the mobo, I 
don't have a system bell.

2. When Chromium is played, the sound track music is actually much 
faster than it ought to be. The pitch is correct, but the tempo seems to 
waver between 1.5 and 2 times as fast as it should be.

3. When the Ant Spotlight screensaver is used, the ant shows up just 
fine, but there is no spotlight. That is, the only thing I see is the 
ant turning at the center of the screen.

Is anyone else having similar behavior, or know what I could do to 
remedy these minor differences? Did I just pick an inappropriate 
mobo/video card?

In terms of getting "real work" done, FC2 is working nicely for me. 
Thank you to the developers and community for putting it all together.

Clint