Audigy 2 ZS Notebook- Popping and Beeping probl

Hey all, I installed my Audigy 2 zs notebook card today and it seems to work fine except that when using with any media player (have tried Winamp, WMP, mediasource player), i get a horrible beeping/hissing/popping sound at the beggining of most songs and it has frozen my player a few times. Most of the time if I suffer through it and let it play, the noises will cease even when it moves to the next song on it's own, but if i skip tracks, the noise appears again. I am absolutley positi've it is not an issue with my sound files or player programs, as they have all worked perfectly in the past. this is kind of an odd problem and i'm just wondering if anyone has had a similar experience. Thanks.

? A soundfont cannot contain alle drumkits, and it is not nessecary at all. I dont know a soundfont bank wich contains a complete set of drumkits, too. There are only some soundfonts like the crysis soundfont (to big for its "bad" quality) wich have some dummy-drumkits/ entrys or slightly modified sounds for each than usual. If all drumnkits would be stored in high-quality, the soundfont would be huge... Every synth i know uses the standard drumkit, if the chosen one is not existent. This is not optimal, but it will guarantee, that the the MIDI file or Program/ game will work. The KXDrivers wont do this. SO they are not useable for General MIDI. Only for MIDIs and soundfonts fitting together. But thats not the point of General MIDI. CMSS isnt working with these drivers, too. Dolby decoding/ encoding isnt possible with them, either. These drivers are not bad, but if you want a completely working card, KXdrivers are worthless.

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    have a look at this, a bit complicated for me ,but it may be of help
    http://uk.europe.creative.com/suppor...asp?thre=23943
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