Audigy 2 on Neo2 Platinum causes LOCK UPs/BSODs!!! Help!

I have a videocard with a HUGE, I mean HUGE custom CPU heatsink attached to it. This leaves me only ONE slot available for my Audigy 2. And that slot is the last slot 5, orange color.
Its the ONLY ONE AVAILABLE. I read on these forums about some incompatibility of Audigy 2 with MSI Neo2 Platinum. Thats what I have. I tried several later and older BIOSes including the official one and the latest beta one.
Still, when I play UT2004 or some other games that demand EAX/Hardware 3D sound - I get a dark blue BSOD without a message (its like a non-WinXP BSOD, its a hardware BSOD as I call it, dark blue color). It comes with a sqeeking sound. I have to restart my PC afterwards.
It happens after 3-4 minutes of playing.
When I REMOVE the soundcard - everything is fine, NO BSOD.
I tried different Audigy 2 drivers, but they all give the same result. This did not happen on my old ASUS A7N8X-Deluxe 2.0, and the soundcard was in PCI Slot 5 as well. I tried to format, and etc., - same thing if the soundcard is in the PCI slot!
I have PCI lock ENABLED (AGP set to 67Mhz, and PCI LOCK DETECTION set to ENABLED).
How do I fix this problem?

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Originally posted by MonarchX
I have PCI lock ENABLED (AGP set to 67Mhz, and PCI LOCK DETECTION set to ENABLED).
When you said that you have PCI lock enabled and PCI lock detection enabled, were you talking about the same thing? If not, where in the BIOS is the PCI lock? I could only find PCI Lock Detection.

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