Since I upgraded to the latest XP drivers for the SB Live! several months ago, I've been experiencing a very annoying problem with both of my PC's running this combo. On intermittent boot-ups I get an awful feedback during the bootup screen as if the microphone just got enabled. As soon as Windows starts to load it stops.

At first I thought I might be running some incompatible software since no one else reported this, but I recently did a clean install and this behavior manifested itself right away before I had a chance to install any other programs.

Now I'm assuming it's a buggy driver, but I'd like to know if anyone else has experienced this behavior before I pursue this further with Creative (so far two e-mails to their tech support have gone unanswered).

Thanks...