SB X-Fi Extreme music problems, enlighten me please!

Hello to all! I'm a Creative sound cards user since 90's. Satisfied yes,but i would ask for a little help over here now.
I have the extreme music pci, not much of a new card i know, but i like the way it sounds through my marantz av amplifier very much. I have used that card with my previous 2 pcs without any issues. Last year i bought an asus p7h55d-m evo motherboard, intel core i5 66 dual core cpu, 2 corsair memory (i can't recall the model right now) sticks each one of 2 gb ram, amd 5770 with GB graphics card, TB WD 00fals hard disk dri've and put them together in Thermaltake HTPC case with a vfd display (imon). I have other devices too but i don't know if it would do any difference to mention.
Motherboard has onboard integrated sound chipset which is disabled (though it should not be a problem enabled), graphics card too (through hdmi). I have ONLY PCI slot where i installed the extreme music. My problem is that even if the latest creative driver for win7 64 bit is succesfully installed and everything looks just fine (no conflicts, resources are ok) i here a very low volume sound output from my speakers. I need to raise the volume to 80% to barely listen to what's played from the x-fi. Before some months the first time i installed the card it worked. Looks like something changed in win7 and doesn't let the card to function correctly. I need your help here as this might be my last chance to figure out the problem before i quit trying with that card. I may buy a new model but i'm not sure what's wrong and if the new one will work.

Maybe you plugged the cables too slacky, reconnect the cables that connect the hardware. Alternati'vely click on the volume in the windows tasklist on the right and select the mixer ... raise everything there.. The output should be enormeus. (sorry for my bad english)
too late but better than nothing.

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