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I recently bought the same card but I haven't had that problem. One thing that I have noticed is that all of the music plays only plays on the two front speakers (I have 5.1 surround). And when I do a diagnostic all of the sound comes through just one speaker. However, when I play BF2 etc, the surround seems to work fine. Strange.

I never had this problem with my old Audigy card.

I was thinking about calling Creative tech support. I just haven't had the time.

*edit* also one reason I haven't called them is that I figured they will tell me that I have to disable my onboard sound or something. I use the motherboard sound for TS so I don't want to change that.