Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Elite Pro Audio Playback Prob

I just installed X-Fi Elite on my Vostro 400 Mini with Intel G33 chipset and sometimes my audio playback sound like a chipmunk. I have to change the mode between game and entertainment to fix the problem. I've disabled the onboard audio before installing.
Is there any known incompatibility between the motherboard and x-fi? I reinstalled the software and the card, but none of them works.
Computer spec:
Core 2 Duo E4300
Kingston 4GB DDR2
Dell Vostro G33 MoBo (don't know what brand it is)
XFX 8800GT XXX 52MB DDR3
HIPER Type R-MKII 680 Watts

On the tray,. lower right, DOUBLE-click the speaker. Up pops "Play Control" panel. Options menu, Properties. With the Playback radio button, acti've, check-on every entry that looks interesting, including .. mic2, and adjust accordingly (way on the right of the panel). Change the radio button "Recording" to acti've. Check-on every interesting controls. Click OK. The panel label changed to "Recording control". Check-on the .. mic2 box. You can usually only have one thing checked-on in the recording panel. The checked-on control is your input source. You're welcome. This text has not be verifed to be free of virus, or even bacteria. Use with extreme caution.

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If anyone has any suggestions, by all means let me know!Message Edited by Gimpifier on 09--2006 09:48 PMMessage Edited by Gimpifier on 09--2006 09:49 PM

Ok, as you see in the picture, there are several mixer stri
ps.
All of them are related to the upper tabs. So:
The Inputs tab bares all the available inputs on your rack and PCI card (just Line In for the latter).
The Multi-Channel Wave tab bares all the outputs available on your rack and the PCI.
Those two tabs are the most important right now.
As I noted earlier, the problem occures either from a mute selection in the Auxiliary 2 strip or a 0% setting to the volume slider of the same strip. Otherwise, you are routing the Aux2 to an output not connected to your speakers. From what I see, no "Mute On" is apparent and you are routing every input to Front L/R Output. Have you tried plugging your headphones to Front L/R and select "2/2." as speakers?
You should also select the monitoring to "Recording" and not to "Playback" (found at the blue field, bottom right). This will enable you to see the input level for your recording source (Aux2 in your case, correctly selected by you).
Your speaker selection is set to "Headphones". Are they connected to the front output?
It might be better to do some troubleshooting. So:
What is the real problem?
No signal from Aux2 input?
No signal from the headphones output?
You say that:
Gimpifier wrote:
The RCAs are li've and working. If I use the Stereo adapter, I can plug them into Mic-In/Line-In and I can hear them if I swap to Line-In. The problem is getting them to work as they are intended, so that I don't have to monkey behind the PC when I want RCA audio.
Can you be mor specific on this? Li've and working? You mean li've from the PS2? Get them to work as intended?
Message Edited by Chastity on 09-3-2006 08:46 AM

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