E-MU 0404 choppy so

I just bought a brand new dell 2400 dimension desk top (2.4ghz, 256 ram, 40gb harddri've). It comes with a SoundMax integrated Digital Audio card.
I bought a E-MU 0404 sound card. I put it in its slot and installed the drivers that came with it.
When i run a wave file in Windows Media player, it plays but the sound stutters and is very choppy. It is unbearable.
I went to System > Device Manager. There are no mentions of hardware conflicts. No red or yellow warning signs beside any of the devices.So i can assume the drivers are ok.
The SoundMax is linked to the Desktop speakers. The E-Mu is ultimately through 2 jack cables going (left and right) to a mixing desk. Can 2 sound cards like this run in harmony on a computer.
Do i need to physically remove/uninstall one or the other?
When i set the EMU card as the default sound card i also get this choppiness in the sound. Using windows media player. This same choppiness also exists in cubase, wave lab etc..So i can say the problem is not with the music playing software
I then set the SoundMax as the default card. I ran the same programs to get the same result.
Then i started the pc in safe mode. I ran Media player to get an error mentioning:
Error ID = 0xC00DBA, Condition ID = 0x00000000
I went to Run > Diagdx and ran the sound tests on directX. No problems reported there.
Anyone any ideas?

I'm not sure how much help this will be, but at least I can answer a question or two.
Windows generally is able to handle multiple soundcards fine, even though a common suggestion is to disable on-board sound. That works because it makes the configuration/resource situation simpler. It may well take more effort to get everything configured and working well with more than one card. I've got two soundcards in my system working OK.
It may (or may not) be worthwhile seeing what E-Mu support can do, and a bit less so what Dell support can.
You can try moving the 0404 to a different slot, since this will cause the system configuration to be shuffled around at bit into another which might work better.
I would also suggest looking at your IRQ assignments to look for devices sharing interrupts with each other. It sounds a bit like you may have some sort of conflicting device behavior behind this, and this exercise may suggest possible candidates.
-Dave
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