Intel BadAxe2 won't boot with X-Fi Titanium Pro P

Just bought the X-Fi Titanium Pro PCIE board. My machine refuses to finish booting with it - it goes through POST, shows info on both RAID arrays, then instead of screening the Windows (Vista 64) boot manager, it stops with?a single flashing cursor in the top left corner of the monitor.
Configuration is E6700, 4GB Ram, Sapphire X950 Pro Ultimate PCIE video card. Until I tried to install the SB card it was fine. If I remove the card it is fine. I've tried the two (6X) slots I have available - sakme result.
Any ideas? Or do I try to return the card (doubt if my supplier will take it back, I'll need an RMA from Creative) and look for someone else's? I'd prefer to find a solution for this one, but I've updated the BIOS and pretty much run out of ideas ....

Well, after doing almost everything I could think of, I was reading the Intel forums and found that users were seeing similar problems with LAN connections when the sound was disabled in the BIOS. The Creative installation instructions had said to turn the sound off. When I turned it back on, the boot continued through and I was able to complete the installation with no further problems at all. And the sound is awesome!

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