Quote Originally Posted by LazyBum View Post
Anyone else have noise problems with their sound card when the Gigabyte (Jmicron) IDE and SATA are enabled? I just flashed over to f6c to give it a try and when I reconfigured my bios settings I forgot to disable it. The dreaded static/chugging rhythm was back on my X-fi card. I've experienced it with this card before, its a static popping that maintains a certain rhythm, about the same rhythm as a car or motorcycle engine at high idle that is missing on one cylinder. I almost ditched this card for the PCI-E titanium version a while back but put it back on the shelf, Creative has done a lot more to earn my scorn than to earn my hardware dollars in recent years. However, the Auzentech card looks promising.
Did you remember to turn off the on-board sound and any other features you don't need? If nothing works on F6c, you can always just flash back to a different BIOS.