Argh...looks like I'm not going to figure out my problem before it's too late -_-. I wish I knew what to check, but this is kind of hard to troubleshoot since I don't know what, specifically, causes this sort of problem.

Rundown of the current condition-

1. In Teamspeak, I get some pops from time to time on the output
2. I *used* to get a problem where a bunch of sounds simultaneously would cause the sound to just turn into static and fade out, then fade back in as the sounds died down
3. I've had some stuttering that seemed to be related to the sound

Basically, I want to know if this is a problem from a defective board, or if it's probably driver related, because I need to return the board if it's defective. I just don't know what would be hardware-induced, though.

Besides that, it seems to run pretty well. Note that I have the sound going through the coax digital out of the board to an external converter, but I don't have this problem with the converter on anything else.

BIOS is 0704