X-Fi xtreme gamer problem. WoW + Ventrilo = periodic sound failu

I recently bought a X-Fi extreme gamer.
When I play World of Warcraft I usually have 2 Ventrilo-clients running, one for guild chat and one for friends chat.
While playing i suddenly got a lot of strange sounds, not directly loud, but very annoying. Sounded like some sounds from an instrument library. It went on for 0 sec or so and then the sound disappeared from my Ventrilo-clients...not from WoW for some reason.
I disconnected myself from vt.
After some time, a few minutes, the sound returned. First it played the sounds I had missed from Ventrilo earlier and then I joined vt again and it worked again. But the problem keeps reappearing, also if I only use one ventrilo.
Can someone help, plz?
My system is a AMD 3500+. 280 mb ram. Enough HD, GF6800agp. Newest drivers. I use Game mode if that matters.
I kinda hope it is a hardware problem, but the diagnotics program doesn't detect any problems. But well, it is a rather specific error.

Hi i was having the same problem Win 7 64 bits? # take out all the dri'ves #2 get the new dri'ves ready #3 restard the PC wen win stards Win7 will start to installl dri'ves automatic but wen this happens you need to run your new dri'ves before windows intall the autodri'ves ok then restard your PC then run the update from your Audio card and you willbe ok
PS sorry my english is the the best LOL

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