XFI Xtreme Gamer New Old Prob

Hi guys first off an apology as this is going to be a long ass post
Right i have a problem with my XFI card which i know is not a new problem, but for me it is first off a bit of background..
My old machine which was as follows:
DFI Lanparty NF4 SLI-DR-Expert
AMD 64 3700+/4200+ X2
2 GIG OCZ Platinum EL DDR 3200
2 X 7600GT in SLI
XFI Xtreme Gamer (both old and new version)
with the old version (no heatsink) big card i couldnt get anything to work couldnt get drivers to install and sometimes couldnt even boot to windows. after plenty of arsing about with drivers bios update and bios settings i got fed up with it and like a muppet i bought another Xtreme gamer (new one with heatsink), and to be fair everything worked like a dream, i have read over these forums multiple times and basically read the main problem with these cards was when paired up with a NF4 motherboard so even tho i was annoyed at having a dud card which no body wanted to claim responcibility for, i was quietly content with the fact i had a working XFI card on a NF4 board. All was great the sound was excellent with my speakers and fatalty headset, games like bf242 FEAR etc sounded better than they ever had before.
Then i came into some money and decided for a big pc overhaul which was as follows
ASUS M3A32-MVP-Deluxe
AMD64 6400+
4 GIG Corsair XMS TwinX 6400
Nvidia 8800GT
I decided as it had worked so well up to now and the fact id had it less than a year, i kept the same XFI card
Got everything setup and installed latest drivers bios and everything, then i hit a problem. ANY GAME that claims to take advantage of the XFI etc has crackling problems. in bf242 when artillery goes off anywhere near me the crackling is INSANE. explosions in FEAR result in INSANE crackling. now this new board i use is a QUAD crossfire board socket AM2+ etc all the latest stuff and yet still this crackling problem persists 2 YEARS+ after the card came out.
now i have gone thru so many posts on so many forums and absolutly EVERYTHING i have tried has done NOTHING to resolve my problem.
CAN ANYONE HELP ME? CREATIVE IM LOOKING IN YOUR DIRECTION...
your company has had alot of money out of me in the last few years so some help would be appreciated.
so many of your customers have gone to other companies for soundcards since the XFI appeared and i will be one of them if i cannot get a result here. what annoys me is WE the CONSUMER pay YOUR wages, without us you will not exist so PLEASE HELP ME HERE. as i will no longer tollerate this. i think its pretty simple fix this long standing problem or A:give us our money back or B:replace this defunct piece of hardware with something that WORKS. ist not much to ask.
before anyone tries to blame my board as the problem i know people with just about every chipset going that has had problems with these cards its all over the forums. i have also tried a SB0220 5. li've and a audigy card in this exact machine with NO PROBLEMS at all. so clearly there is a problem with the XFI?
ANY IDEAS WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED but i would like to hear from someone from creative here as user input is getting me (and probably alot of other people) NOWHERE
LEE ?

just wanted to let you know how to solve this or any other problem with this XFI or any other creative card?
do what i did?
TAKE IT OUT YOUR PC AND USE SOMETHING ELSE?
as soon as i did this and wnent to onboard sound maX HD audio all my problems went aways?
that was my last creative sound card thats for sure?
anyways Auzentec have got some nice cards?

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