The same thing happened to me with windows 7 x64, twice in 3 months. I had the latest drivers but until now i blamed it on hardware issues with my computer. It may be a bug or something but the sound is metalic, very loud and happened when the computer/sound card was not stressed or anything...

Hi, can anyone say how is this new soundcard compared to the emu 0404 usb

I don't think it has anything to do with priority settings i had similar problem some time ago. Some software is was using messed something up i dont know what and the system generated way too many interrupt requests. It had freezes everytime i had network traffik or more processes to be...

Thank you for advice i thought about an x-fi too. But wouldn't I get a better sound from a emu 0404 usb ? What about connecting by the digital imput to my onboard soundcard. Would I get the benefit from both the integrated soundard and the emu soundcard ? I am trying to find the best solution...

Until now i have used the akg k66 with the integrated intel HD soundcard and the sound was good but i feel like i want more. So ... I will soon buy the sennheiser hd 595 headphones and i will buy a new sound card to get more from these. I can spend up to 200$ on a soundcard if it is a real...