Intermittent Static Hiss w/ Slow-mo Distorted sounds (SB Audigy

Hello all!? Having a bit of an issue with an old SB Audigy 4 [C000] of mine. Bought it about two years ago, took it from the old desktop and put it into the new one. Had no issues with it until yesterday.
It seems that it's liking to suddenly emit a static hissing noise at random intervals, and when this hissing is going on, any audio coming from the computer is slowed down. I've never had this issue before, and I'm wondering if someone on here has had similar issues. These symptoms eventually end, but it's quite annoying because I have to wait for it to stop until it decides to go away. It also seems that it is somewhat affected by whatever I'm doing at the moment - minimizing windows or hovering the mouse over something that displays a text box sometimes makes it stop for a short second, before it picks up again.
Thank you in advance.

...except that I'm using Windows XP 32-bit with SP2.
The only thing I can think of that would be causing this is that the WiFi USB adapter I installed yesterday was causing some sort of IRQ conflict or frequency disturbance. I've since plugged it into a different set of USB ports than where it originally was - maybe that'll fix it (I hope).

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