Vizy

I am the unfortunate owner of a Creative x-fi xtreme music sound card. the sound was crisp and clean, and i really loved it. Now my sound is amazingly horrible at times.

when i say 'times' i mean when i open up an application. thats when it happens and also...for some odd reason, whenever i start up halo: combat evolved, the cracking, broken, distorted sound is their for the music that plays. but when i am at the menu, everything is all good. and whenever i get booted from a server, or i get the 'server is full' note from the game i notice that the sound gets distorted horribly, but once i trurn to main menu, the sound is once again perfect.

my speakers....are not the problem, they work fine with other computers. i also can plug them into my ipod....and the sound is pefect.

i personally feel that it has something to do with the 'resources' being used. cause whenever the sound distorts....my comp slows down a bit. like when opening an application...its takes longer than it used to when my sound was perfect. the sound also distorts when i boot up windows...and shut it off.

wierd. i tried all the usuall driver sheeznits so thats not a problem. i reseated my card, tried different ports and thats not a problem either.

i have a crap picture of the soundcard...i took it with my 1.3 mp phone so its really crap... but ive noticed that ontop of 3 of my 4 ports of the soundcard...it is slightly browned...like cooked...burned...spiked.... etc.

i will try the soundcard in a diff computer really quick and see if anything happens...wish me luck. ill post back results