Popping Cracking in Entertainment Mode o

I have searched the board and offcourse found out problems with cracking/popping with the X-Fi, but none seem to have the problem only when in Entertainment mode.
Well thats my problem. The cracking/popping comes after using my computer for a while. If i change to game mode the cracking/popping dissapear and when changing back to Entertainment it can be heard again.
Is this a common problem and can it be fixed? All the other thread about cracking/popping issues are about 00-200 pages long so i just can't read all of them.

Glad that one worked. Sadly there's no way of telling whehter Creative actually know about the issue or not...
The humming might be volume related, come to think of it. The X-Fi is quite a loud card. With the volume set to the same levels as my a2 zs it's actually a bit too loud. Open up the mixer and disable everythig you don't use (typically idsable everything except wave). Now set the volume on wave and on the main dial to about 60-70%. Open up the windows mixer (start, run, then type sndvol32 ) now hit options then properties. Enable all the controls and hit ok. Now disable everything except wave and play control. That should solve it!

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