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Ok lemme try my best to explain all this and see what you all think. ( i do apologize for the length)

Ok i installed vista last week. The install went smoothly, and i was able to get everything up and running fine. I was impressed with windows vista and its ease of getting things installed. I installed the drivers for my sound card, and the drivers were a bit dated. But alas vista prevailed and my sound worked great. BTW i am running a SB Audigy Value 2 sound card. So a few days went by and things were going fine, and one evening my wife and i decided to start cleaning so i was going to crank up some tunes to work to, and this is where things started going wrong. The mp3 files started to play and were doing ok for a time, but then started to stop in mid song, and then stopped playing all together. I dont believe it was my sound card because the counter on the media player stopped ticking also. It was late and i just didnt feel like messing with it so i went to bed.

I know it sounds a little funny, but let me explain...

I intalled the beta drivers for the soundblaster ZS-2, for the most part it works ok, exept I only get sound out of the front and center speakers, Unless i go into the media center and play sound there, then it reconizes all speakers.

I notice when i have anything going on with my secondary monitors, the sound gets scratchy graphics...(i.e...scrolling IE, opening window on those screens...ect..), as if there is a problem with data transfer on the main board...(installed defualt main board drivers, no vista avail from what i have discoved)