Popping sound from Audigy 2 Plati

I am receiving a lot of popping through the speakers. I also receive popping through my headphones hooked through either the front panel or the back of the sound card. I have recently installed a new video card, and everything was fine until then. The new video card is a Radeon 9800 Pro. I am running the current drivers for both my sound and my video card.
I tried all of the steps listed in the essential troubleshooting guide from the web site. I moved the card in the case to the bottom PCI slot, as far away from other hardware as possible. I made sure the wires were clean so there was no electrical interference. I disable "plug & play OS" in BIOS as well as the other suggestions such as AGP aperture size, etc. I disabled DMA writing for my dri'ves.
Nothing has worked. The sound is fine if I uninstall the Audigy card and re-enable thr onboard audio.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Again, I have already tried the steps listed in the essential troubleshooting guide from the web site.
Thanks,
Elader

I am having the same problem. I have an OEM Audigy 2 that came with my Dell Dimension 4600 PC. I just bought it in September 2004 It also has a ATI Radeon 9800 Pro, just like above.
I get occasional pops in Halo. I use hardware accelerated sound and EAX enabled. In Tribes 2, I there aren't any pops, but there is another shrill, shrieking type sound that plays very loudly. It occurs randomly. It doesn't affect game, its not that frequent, but its very annoying none the less
My Specs
Dell Dimension 4600
CPU 2.8Ghz Pentium 4 800Mhz FSB
52MB dual channel DDR 400Mhz
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 28MB DDR
Audigy 2
Dell 5650 00 watt 5. Speakers
I have tried using several drivers, the ones from the Dell CD, the latest ones from this website.
I tried using these drivers http://kxproject.lugosoft.com/index.php?skip=
They work pretty good, I didn't get any sound glitches, but they lack EAX support.
Long story short, I went back and forth between drivers testing them out and am currently just using the original OEM drivers from the CD, they work the best. There are slight annoyances with the updated drivers that I could deal with, but they don't fix the sound quality problems in my games.

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