External 24-Bit Troubleshooting (Audio freezes oft

Hello all, here's a copy of the e-mail I sent to Creative, I thought maybe some of you experts could also lend me a hand.
I'm having serious problems with my Sound Blaster Li've USB 24-Bit External Sound card. When I installed it for the first time, using the drivers from the CD, the audio plays, the only problem is, every time there is system activity, the sound locks up, then resumes after the system stops "thinking." All system activity triggers the sound freezing ? be it opening a program, minimizing, maximizing, reloading a page, surfing the web, anything. I understand that this can be a problem on old computers, but my laptop is brand new, so by all means this should not be a problem. If the system sits there inacti've, solely playing a song, then there is no problem. But any other system activity causes it to freeze in areas, as mentioned. For reference, I have XP professional, GB ram, and a 2.2 GHz AMD Turion processor.
My first attempt at troubleshooting was to check and see if there were updated drivers. First I went to Microsoft Windows update. There were none. I then went to the Creative support page. I downloaded the updated drivers for Windows XP, no difference. The audio freezes up just as often, if not more often, than originally.
I then tried a clean boot, not loading anything other than Microsoft services with Windows. Same deal. Something is causing the sound to lock up everything the computer does anything, which is very frustrating.
Is there any way to prevent this? Or am I going to have to, unfortunately, return my product?
Any and all advice would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Chris

CHulton wrote:
Hello all, here's a copy of the e-mail I sent to Creative, I thought maybe some of you experts could also lend me a hand.
I'm having serious problems with my Sound Blaster Li've USB 24-Bit External Sound card. When I installed it for the first time, using the drivers from the CD, the audio plays, the only problem is, every time there is system activity, the sound locks up, then resumes after the system stops "thinking." All system activity triggers the sound freezing ? be it opening a program, minimizing, maximizing, reloading a page, surfing the web, anything. I understand that this can be a problem on old computers, but my laptop is brand new, so by all means this should not be a problem. If the system sits there inacti've, solely playing a song, then there is no problem. But any other system activity causes it to freeze in areas, as mentioned. For reference, I have XP professional, GB ram, and a 2.2 GHz AMD Turion processor.
My first attempt at troubleshooting was to check and see if there were updated drivers. First I went to Microsoft Windows update. There were none. I then went to the Creative support page. I downloaded the updated drivers for Windows XP, no difference. The audio freezes up just as often, if not more often, than originally.
I then tried a clean boot, not loading anything other than Microsoft services with Windows. Same deal. Something is causing the sound to lock up everything the computer does anything, which is very frustrating.
Is there any way to prevent this? Or am I going to have to, unfortunately, return my product?
Any and all advice would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Chris
Have you checked, if there are IRQ/orher resource shares showing up (System information - hardware resources - Conflicts/Sharing.
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