Problems running Xi-Fi Xtreme Music on Vi

Hello all,
This is my first time posting, so please bear with me. I recently upgraded my pc's motherboard to an Asus P5KE Premium Wi-Fi board. This board has onboard sound associated with it. I set everything up and moved all my components over from my old board to the new one before doing a completely clean installation of Windows Vista Home Premium (32 bit). All went well, however I have been experiencing problems with my Xi-Fi card. I installed the latest drivers from the Creative Website for Vista and the card has been recognised. However, I am experiencing multiple problems. First and foremost, I am receiving no sound whatsoever from my sound card. Secondly, I am experiencing random slowdowns, system freezes/crashes, and on one or two occasions I am receiving a message saying my video card stopped responding but has recovered. My video card is a Power Color ATI Radeon HD3870 and it is installed in a PCI 2.0 compliant PCI-Expressx6 slot.My sound card is installed in a standard PCI slot two slots below my graphics card. I have re-installed the drivers after completely uninstalling them, but nothing seems to work. I am wondering if there is an IRQ or other resource conflict going on somewhere on the system. I have been given a Soundblaster Xi-FI Extreme Audio PC Express card, but I am loathe to install it as I feel it would be downgrading my sound capabilities. If anyonehas any ideas please let me know, any help is greatly appreciated and if you need any more info please ask. Thanks in advance for your assistance.

Well - I had no luck getting the Xtreme Music to work. I tried installation in each of my PCI slot - the card is recognised and I can install drivers for it - it appears in the device manager and to all intents and purposes seems to be working. However, I get no sound whatsoever, through powered speakers or headphones. And Vista freezes after a random amount of time (sometimes or 2 mins - sometimes a little longer). I have disabled the onboard audio, I have disabled all unrelevant stuff in my bios. I have noticed one other thing, when I load an mp3 file into Windows Media player (the file plays, just no sound) - the timer for the song goes far too quickly - much quicker than it does under normal operation. I spent fi've hours trying to sort this last night to no avail - tried using Drivercleaner to empty out all the Creative drivers and did a reboot into safe mode (where everything appears to be fine - no crashes). I have currently installed the Sound Blaster Xi-FI Xtreme Audio PCI-Express card - which installs and works with no problems whatsoever - however I'd rather not keep this card in as its not hardware accelerated like the Xi-Fi Xtreme Music is. I'm not entirely sure it supports EAX or OpenAL properly either. But some sound is better than none. All this leads me to believe that I either have faults with all my onboard PCI slots, that there is a hardware conflict somewhere, or that my motherboard (Asus P5KE/Wi-Fi) has compatibility issues. Any further ideas?

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