yeah I have bad problems with crackling if I hook up my rear 2 speakers in win2k with the latest version of the drivers/software from creative on my SB live value I have tried all the PCI timing and other stuff that could help and nothing does so far and this is on a KT133 MB. I do not have this problem with older vortex 2 based soundcards that I used to use.

For TheGreatOne : comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.* is a newgroup for IBM compatable PC's (so just about everything with an intel chip in it) not just IBM the company's PC's

2000 Silver SE Sport V6 MTX, B&M shifter, SVT exhaust, 75K on the clock.