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My pre-upgrade rig:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI
2x 6800GT 256mb PCIE in SLI
2 GB of Crucial DDR400 (dual channel setup)
Enermax 550w PSU #1
Thermaltake Truepower 470w PSU #2
(yes 2 power supplies running everything)
CL X-FI Xtrememusic sound card
1 - 250GB SATA Maxtor HD

had 1 issue when it was installed because it saw about 25-30 new irq channels, but just needed a MB BIOS update and from then on no problems of any kind.


Upgraded Comp Specs:

Same 2 PSU units
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ (dual 1mb L2 cache)
same set of DDR400 RAM
Asus A8N-E motherboard
2 x 250GB wester digital SATA (RAID0)
1 x 250GB maxtor SATA HD (data storage)
Nvidia 7900GT 256mb PCIE graphics
also same X-FI extrememusic sound card

This time I installed everything and I was able to install everything with no problems at all with the sound.

So if you by chance have another of your Sound Card then install the other one and test. If it still has the problem then I would say that the sound card isn't the problem. Also I was doing some reading on the CL support forums reguarding the problem you are describing, and it looks like a lot of those Asus SLI boards are having issues with the card. So honestly not sure what else to say, but maybe try a different motherboard that hasn't been pointed out as some one having a problem runing that X-FI card with it. Years ago other hardware parts simply didn't like working with some other pieces of hardware, and therefore they were branded as uncompatible with each other.... sounds like they may have created a card that either picks and chooses which other components it likes to work with or some other hardware just know how to code for them better, but it sounds right now like nobody knows at this point. Feel sorry that you are getting stuck with such headaches. Lord knows I absolutely hate it when my stuff doesn't function right for me.

I may or may not be having a problem now, but it might be because of my monitor. I have recently installed and started playing F.E.A.R. Combat, and I have been experiencing the game crashing and throwing up and error on my screen. My monitor is a Veiwsonic 27" widescreen and from the settings I can see that FEAR combat doesn't offically support widescreen resolutions. So that might be my problem I am having with the game crashing. I would be playing and then the game locks up and tells me that it is nonresponsive and I can chose to send an error report or not. So whether the sound card is causing that... I don't know, but I think its because the game doesn't support widescreen resolutions.

In any case I still have no problems with any sort of crackling or static or anything wrong with my sound.

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jfmaday let me talk to one of our members and find out what he did for his wide screen to work with certain games. I know BF2 does not support wide screen but he has it running fine with his.