Lost my center channel on X-Fi (and recovered

That's the weirdest thing I have ever seen. I have formatted my dri've and reinstalled Windows XP with SP2 integrated. My machine is a Pentium 4 2.26 o/c at 2.7 (60 FSB), it's been working solid rock for years. Motherboard is Gigabyte 8INXP (Intel E7205 Granite Bay chipset) with Gb or RAM (2x52Mb OCZ).
Afer formatting and reaintalling, I configured the X-Fi Fatalty, I did speaker test and everything works fine, sound from all of them (tested under THX console). On saturday I started playing Doom 3 (EAX 4.0 patched) and I noticed that weapon sound came from front right speaker. I exit Doom, and I enter Battlefield 2, with nati've X-Fi support. Same thing, center sounds came from right speaker. I couldn't believe it.
I unplugged all cables from the subwoofer (Megaworks 550 THX 5.l), launched speaker test and started pluggin again every cable. Guess what?, I didn't get any sound from center speaker. I uplugged center speaker and connected it intro front left connector. It sound ok, so it's not speaker fault. I switch the center/sub cable with the front left/right, and I get sound from center speaker when I clic front left, so the amplifier seems ok.
So I have only one thing left: the X-Fi. I tried everything, shut down the PC, restart, change speaker settings and nothing works, so I start thinking about RMA. I take out the card from the PC, look at it (I was waiting to see some burnt chip into it, but it was perfect) and, as my last effort, I plug it into a different PCI slot.
It worked, and I still can't believe it. I haven't changed ANYTHING, just boot again and all speakers work. I'm sure if I place it into the original PCI slot it will work, because it was working when I just installed the OS.
If anybody can tell me what the hell happened here, I would be very, very grateful

same thing happened to me , but i lost my rear left , when i ran the speaker test the sounds for the left was comming the right , and the test sound for the right came out muffled trough the front right .
pissed out of my mind , i uninstalled all the drivers and deleted all the creative folders.
reinstalled and it was fixed ,
creative builds awesome sound cards , but awefull drivers .
im still trying to find out why my microphone is sending the feed back back to my speakers , even when im not recording anything or have any recording application open , resulting in a nasty feedback and screching noise when i turn on my spakers loud .
i solved this by connecting the microphone in the front of the platium panel and just puting up to having to listen to myself type in my earphones , and when i want to listen to my speakers i just turn down the microphone nob .
annoying , i dont think this card was ready to be released driver wise .

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