X-Fi sound channel failure.

X-Fi sound channel failure. I am currently using an X-Fi XtremeMusic PCI card on a 5. speaker system. Sound is not correctly generating on the all speaker channels. When I first started having this issue, the front right channel stopped generating sound through the X-Fi software. Channel tests would produce sound on all the other speakers. However, while playing music or a game, sound could faintly be heard on the front right channel. Setting the speaker options to use head phones instead of 5. speakers would work fine, but would not generate sound properly for the front right channel under any other configuration. I have double checked all the connections and the speaker unit and they are all set up and functioning correctly. Switching between Entertainment mode and Game mode did not seem to fix or alter the issue.
I? uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers with the latest driver (2.8.008). All the speaker channels started working again when I did a quick channel test. However, once I adjusted the volume control to 00%, the rear left, rear right, center and subwoofer channels all died. The headphone setting still works as expected, and switching between any other speaker settings did not otherwise change the results. Switching from Game mode to Entertainment mode did cause a new quirk though. The channel test labeled the front left speaker correctly, but sent the front center sound to the front right speaker and from there no other channels responded.
So right now I am trying to determine weather this is a software issue or a hardware issue. If its just hardware, I can solve that problem by getting a new card. If its software, obviously getting a new card (same/similar model) is not a sure fix, but fixing the software issue would save me from buying new hardware.
I am running Windows XP SP3 on an AMD Phenom 3x 8750, nForce 750a chipset and a Gforce 9600 GT. The X-Fi card is the only addon device on the PCI bus.

Re: X-Fi sound channel failure.e How? Are there instruction on how to do that?
What I've done so far is use the Creative Diagnostic to test everything to make sure it is working properly. It says it is. I checked the Device Manager, and everything seems to check out there also.
I think something might be missing. When I tried to download the lastest version of Creative Diagnostics, everything seems to be just fine, until the very end. That's when this message comes up? "Setup did not detect the required components. Setup will exit." Then when I checked to see if anything was interfering with the Creative software, a yellow question mark does show up, but not by or in the Creative part. It is 2 spots above, and says "Other Devices--Audio Device on High Definition Audio Bus"
What could be missing though? I still have the Creative CD to download everything. I've tried that, but still, that yellow ? comes up and says? "Setup did not detect the required components. Setup will exit."? Shouldn't everything be in that CD!? It always worked before.

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