Sound blaster 24 bit external (cracking)

Hey guys, i've recently reinstalled my 24 bit sound blaster as i noticed there was an update to make it compatible with windows 7. It's kinda working fine but my front left speaker is cracking/sometimes not playing at all. Any suggestions?
Also when i do the surround test my front left speaker is VERY quiet compared to the rest. Thanks

Hi.
Creative as an Audio Center to download for sb live 24 external soundcard, and they say this application restores the Line in monitoring function (that's what you want).
But it doesn't work!!!
I had the same issues and here is Creatives support team reply to my emails:
"Our Advance Support Group has confirmed that the Line in Monitoring
feature isn't supported under Vista with Live 24 Bit External.
Sorry for the inconvenience caused."
So my solution was to give up Windows Vista and install Windows XP on my laptop.

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