is it impossible to use two sound card in a comput

  I have a PCI sound card(CMI8738) in my computer which is bad as it almost can't record,and I have another ISA sound card(ess1868) which can record very well but it's playing sound is bad as some noise in it's playing.So,I decide to put these two sound cards in a same computer.

  In windows98,these two alway works well when I specialized one for recording and another for playing,and can talk and listen in a website chat(chat server),but can talk and listen in QQ for when the talking and listening was begun,the coumputer's system resource reduces to under 10%,the computer os will dead.

  In windows2000,the ISA sound card can't install correctly except only onece.When they are installed correctly,they can work well except in QQ.But is acted diffently on windows98,instead of computer os is dying,there is no any effection in QQ when I using voice chat.

  When I only install ISA sound card in windows2000,it works,includes recording and playing.But,it still can't work in QQ.And,I can't test the PCI sound card if it works in QQ because it can't record.

  Why can't my sound card work in QQ?