System info:

PC Chips Mobo
Sapphire Atlantis Radeon 9800 Pro 256Mb (AGP video card)
Windows XP Professional SP1
Intel Pentium 4 3.2Ghz (HyperThreading enabled)
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2ZS
1GB RAM

Well my sound was working fine before, though it did snap and pop sometimes, but it never cut out. One day I decided to try and upgrade my sound drivers - not even checking (out of laziness) to see if I already had up-to-date drivers. After installing the latest drivers, my sound crashes after playing a game for about a minute - same with movies and songs! it pops, crackles, snaps, pauses, halts, screetches, beeps, buzzes, and annoys the living $%^* outta you.
THE BEST PART: I already had the SAME driver version! I installed the SAME drivers over themselves!

Rolling back drivers did nothing...

I'm totally confused - if I installed the same drivers then how could anything have changed enough to make my sound that corrupted?


help!!!