Crative Inspire 7.1 w/ Audigy 2 Value - Subwoofer constantly rumbling, whether sound playing or not

As the message title says, my subwoofer constantly rumbles whether I have sound playing or not. If I don't have sound playing, just the subwoofer rumbles. If I do have sound playing, the sound plays normal, except the subwoofer rumbles OVER the sound. I've tried adjusting every subwoofer option I could find to no avail. The only thing that stops it is completely killing sub woofer volume, and it really sounds like crap without bass Anyone else had this problem? Anyone know a fix? It used to work fine, then this problem started up a few months ago, then it corrected itself, and now its back and I can't fix it...

If I have understood you right, then I'm afraid you have broken the subwoofer!
Several months ago, I think it was last year, somewhere in August I encountered this problem with my P580 5.1 speaker system. I was playing with too loud music and the subwoofer couldn't take it. This is were you all people have to pay ATTENTION! Just because the remote says "Level 0" on the bass volume doesn't mean that you may turn both the volum and the bass to the MAX! You will simply break the subwoofer, it cannot handle that kind of pressure. Now, how do you notice that the subwoofer is broken? Well, it may have different sounds on different systems, however my P580 had some kind of "Whhhooooo" sound.
But don't worry!!! There is always a way through this kind of problems as it is with any other problem you encounter with your speakers. If you have the receipt at your disposal and your garuantee haven't expired then you may always get a new one! But if you haven't got it, then you just contact your customer support, then they will ask you to send your subwoofer to them and they will just send you a new one! It will take a couple of week's but, make sure to contact them and they will send you a new one as soon as they have recieved yours. You need to give them a copy of your receipt, if you haven't got one then send your product number found on the box containing the speaker and all that...

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