Barely audible sound from X-fi to Z5500s

(Barely audible sound from X-fi to Z5500s? For the past few weeks every other day or so after turning on my computer I get barely audible sound from my computer speakers (Z5500s) connected through the 6 ch direct. I can make out music or whatever it is, but it's extremely faint. I have an X-fi Platinum with the front pannel, and if I plug headphones into the front pannel I get normal sound. Likewise, anything else plugged into the Z5500s (e.g. iPod plugged into the 6 ch direct) works just fine.
To fix the problem I've been able to unplug the three audio cables going into the X-fi, wait a couple seconds, plug them back in, and everything's back to normal for a couple days. Today it happened, but I can't get normal sound from the card to the speakers no matter what I do (agian, everything else works fine). I tried replacing the cables connecting the X-fi to the Z5500 dock, and that fixed it for about 30 seconds, then it went out again.
So I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas. In case someone asks, onboard sound is disabled.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Message Edited by Alastor2588 on 03-6-2009 04:44 [email protected]

I needed to use a mic (arenas in World of Warcraft) so I decided to enable my onboard audio. My plan was to use the X-Fi with the default driver for sound and the onboard audio for the mic. This worked. Today I decided to install the the X-Fi Titanium drivers...just for fun (full install). This is with the onboard audio still enabled. I did one thing different and that was select "headphones" as my speaker type. Now, I'm second guessing myself but I believe it didn't work right after the install. I then lock the screen for a few hours, it either sleeps or hibernates, and I come back to working sound.
bleh
Did a few more tests.
) Rebooting with it set to headphones will give me sound.
2) Changing it to 2. sound doesn't produce sound. Change it back to headphones does not produce sound. ?
3) After a reboot, I was playing a mp3 and the sound cut out after 30s.
4) After a reboot, waited 5 minutes, played same mp3 and got no sound.
5) Reboot, disable onboard audio, started to play mp3 and it cut out after 5s.
6) Reboot, disable JMicron AHCI Controller, play mp3 and it cut out after 20s.
7) Reboot, disable HPET Function, mp3 stops after a few seconds.
8) Reboot, plug in headphones instead of my Klipsch speakers and it took 5-0min for the sound to cut out.
Next step is to use my spare hard dri've with the rest of the computer parts from my old computer to install winxp and see if it is an issue there too.
Message Edited by sirsad on 06-29-2008 0:46 PM

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