Fixed my sound crackling problem! Soundblast X-fi Xtrememusic c

I received my Soundblaster X-fi Xtrememusic card yesterday evening and having sound crackling problem. I could hear this crackling sound whenever I play music CD or play Battlefield 2 and it was annoying,? So I searched Google about this and found a thread on this forum about a bunch of people having this same problem. I just thought I should post my problem/solution to see if this fixes for you guys. The issue with my system was because of my wireless Belkin Pre-N desktop card. Here is how I found out:?. Was having crackling problem so I reinstalled Windows XP w/ SP22. After Windows XP installed, the first driver I installed was for?Soundblaster X-fi card3. Tested the sound by playing music CD. Couldn't detect any crackling sound.4. Installed Belkin?wireless?Pre-n desktop card driver and crackling sound returns. >5. Uninstall Belkin driver and turned off computer6. Put in my old D-Link DWL 520 Wireless card and installed driver for it. So far X-fi seems to like D-Link DWL 520 card!?I tested with D-Link DWL 520 by listening to music and downloading 28mb file off Nvidia and no crackling sound! I hope this help for you guys! I love X-fi now... I was about to return it back to Newegg. ?My system spec:Windows XP w/ SP2AMD 64 X2 4400+ (at stock speed)Asus A8N-SLI Premium MB2GB Corsair memory600 Watts Seasonic power supplyEVGA 7800GT SLI2x 250GB Western Digital HD on?NVRAID0?Message Edited by ktun on 02-28-20060:59 AM

Same thing here... X-Fi Titanium Fatalty Champion, P5E3 Deluxe (x38)..using Windows XP SP3
check it out ftp://ftp.int3.ru/X-Fi_Recording_Sample.rar

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