X-FI Xtreme Audio and Gigabyte motherboard - machine won't mount di

Hi,
I just bought me a nice new audio card, as the onboard card on my motherboard isn't all that (I think).
Now here's the issue; After installing the new card in the second PCI slot, thus leaving an open PCI slot between the PCI-E slot (which holds my video card) and the PIC slot I used for the audio card, when booting up the machine it won't actually load any OS (I use GRUB to multiboot). It complains about a wrong device, disk read error, and all kind of funny things. Turns out for some reason my DVD player isn't recognized anymore as far as I can tell, and this completely changes the boot order. Also, when touching the dri'ves when it's booted, I don't feel any actual activity. Booting takes a long time as well with the card inserted.
Removing the audio card and turning the onboard one back on in BIOS (or just leaving it disabled) turns everything back to normal :smileyindifferent: I've also tried assigning the card another IRQ in the BIOS, but that doesn't really change anything at all...
If anyone has any idea after looking at the below specs, please enlighten me.
Tech Specs
Motherboard: [url="http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ProductID=2500">ga-ma69vm-s2 with an AMD64+ 4200[/url]
Audio card: Creative Sound Blaster X-FI Extreme Audio PCI version
Dri'ves:
x SATA Disk (Windows does not know about this disk)
x regular IDE disk (which has windows on it)
x regular IDE DVD-RW dri've
Video Card: GeForce 8800GT (in PCI-E slot)
Power supply: 430W Thermaltake
Thanks for checking this out, and please post any and all ideas or if more info / testing is needed to analyze this!

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