Audigy ZS digital probl

My hard dri've died a couple of weeks ago, so I sent it and just got the new one and installed windows.
At the same time, I installed a new power supply since my old one was incompatable with my system, especially my video card. It would always crash the video card, but it's an ati so i wasn't suprised it sucks. anyway, now with the new psu, i'm able to have fast write on my video card, and install sp2 and all the via chipset drivers.
I know the via chipset is by far the worst out, but theres no reason the problem I'm having should be happening.
With my audigy ls, it always worked fine with xp pro sp running digital out at 96/24 bit to my z5500ss. Now, with xp sp2 and the via drivers, i can't get it to work right at 96k, i'm stuck at 48k. it seems to keep losing connection with the speakers. Like im not doing anything and it will keep poping up on the speakers "No digital data" then a split second later it will come back on. That sound makes this irritating poping sound in the speakers. When music is playing, the same thing will happen and the sound will keep cutting in and out and making that poping sound.
I was always told that adding the via drivers made speeds between processor/pci and processor/agp way faster. In my case it's limiting it so much I can't even get full quality out of my 3 year old sound card.
My system specs are:
asus a8v deluxe
a64 3400+
gb dual channel 3200 ram
ati 9600xt 28mb
creative audigy ls
win xp pro sp2
Whats going on here? And how can I fix it's
Thanks,
Mike

Model of my soundcard is Audigy LS, as You have written above.
I do not know why I was asking about ZS...
I found those drivers :
http://uk.europe.creative.com/support/downloads/download.asp?Product_ID=923&Product_Name=Audigy+LS &OSName=Windows+XP&OS=0&DriverType=&details=
Are they good to install ? My current version of drivers is 5.2..24 .Message Edited by 8thpassenger on 07-3-2005 02:5 PM

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