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I had this problem with my creative xfi xtreme I have an ASUS Rampage Formula motherboard P4 with Nvidia Graphics Card(nvidia has HD audio but that is disabled) the scratchy sound was driving me crazy so I was trying everything to fix it btw their are new Win 7 ( mine is 64 bit) drivers dated Feb 2011 might help you. But in my Bios there is a listing for HD AUDIO I disabled that and now the crackling and noise is gone. I do not have sound built in to my MB so it is not that. Also with creative cards YOU do have to turn off all anti virus and background programs to install it. I didn't install the drivers and programs yet (it is still using old drivers dated 6-2009) because I had uninstalled everything once again to try the new drivers I had Downloaded but I was so happy to have it working right I didn't want to screw it up with drv and applications so I will install those today.