Cracks and pops while playing anything "above" stereo

Hi!
First of all I have read the sticky about this issue but did not find anything that I think applies.
I recently had a misshappen with my old HTPC (the PSU burned, taking with it the mobo, processor and two harddri'ves ?<img alt="Shocked[/img] src="http://ac3filter.net/forum/Smileys/amunet/shocked.gif">) and I had to build a new box. The specs are the following:
Antec Fusion Remote
Gigabyte MA78GM-UD2H
Athlon 64 X2 7850
2GB Kingston HyperX 066MHz DDR2
500GB Caviar Blue SATA2
X-Fi Extreme Audio
Now the problem (which I have tried to research before posting this) is that every now and then the sound will pop and crackle when playing anything "above" stereo. The signal will cut out so to speak, the amp will lose the connection momentarily to recieve it half a second or so later. At first I thought that grounding might be the issue but as I said normal stereo-stuff like mp3's, youtube etc work without any problems.
The soundcard is from my old HTPC and has worked flawlessly and the same thing goes for the cable (analogue to coax from the digital I/O of the X-Fi with SPDIF enabled).
It happens in VLC, MPCHC and XBMC. So both with AC3 Filter and VLC's internal encoder.
The reason I'm using the X-Fi and not the internal Realtek is that I can not for the life of me get it to work hehe. It is disabled from the BIOS.
So, any help would be greatly appreciated.
EDIT: Using Windows XP SP3 with newest drivers for the X-Fi.
Message Edited by javlar on 08-04-2009 2:59 PM

there is a web application currently that would allow the touch to remotly control ur itunes on ur computer i have not tried it....but it seems like it would be what u are interest in.....
Here is the link to one..
http://www.apple.com/webapps/productivity/roami.html
Here is the link to another one...
http://www.apple.com/webapps/entertainment/signal.html
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