Any fix for X-FI screech of death? *sound clip included for downlo

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You can listen to it for yourself. Happens in certain games like conflict global storm if you turn the music all the way down. That clip happens to be from FEAR Extraction Point in which it happens throughout 90% or more of the game which makes it really no fun to play at all. The only thing that "stops" it is going into the bullet time which is only a temporary fix as it just starts right after leaving bullet time. It's happened in a few other games just temporarily or in certain situations on both of the X-FI xtreme music card's I've had. I never have the same computer for more than 6 months as parts are switched out with upgrades on a monthly basis and on numerous Nvidia chipsets from nforce 3/4 and nforce 570 it always happens. I format for one reason or another every 3 weeks or so and every time I always download the latest graphics/chipset/sound/anything drivers for every piece of hardware I have so I've had this problem across at least the last 20 versions of drivers for everything I have so I know for a fact it's these **bleep** sound cards. On every single board I've had since experiencing this problem for the first time I even tried every pci slot on my motherboard every time with no success fixing the issue.
For those interested my current setup which is soon to be once again 00% overhauled (which I'm sure won't fix the problem) is an AMD 5200+, Abit KN9 Ultra nforce 570 motherboard, 8800 GTS and X-FI xtreme music.
Is there any fix for this or is creative aware of this problem and allow us to send them the card for one without this defect? I know I've read in the past other people were having the issue but it didn't bother me enough at the time to do anything about it.Message Edited by arfett on 08-29-20070:44 PM
Message Edited by arfett on 08-29-20070:45 PM

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It does it in game mode or entertainment mode. In 2 weeks I'll be on an Asus P5K motherboard with a Q6600. I know deep down I'm still going to have this problem, but part of me has hope it just might do the trick.
After some further troubleshooting I found a way to get rid of the screech in Extraction Point. If the music slider is set about 5 or 6 notches from maximum it won't screech. any higher or lower and it screeches. In conflict Global Storm it was caused by turning the music completely off so it seems it's some form of incompatibility with music volume in games. It's done it on both of my xtreme music's (I bought a 2nd one because I thought I must have just bought a defecti've card) so I think I might try one of those Auzentech X-FI cards and see if I have any better luck since they actually put quality components around the X-FI chip, unlike Creative.Message Edited by arfett on 08-3-200703:4 AM