Sound Card Problem

[Sysdll]

I’m having a problem with a Creative Sound Blaster XtremeGamer SB0730. It randomly causes system slowdown and slow booting in Windows XP, Windows 7 and Ubuntu.

It’s not software because the problem was fixed by swapping it with an identical card and the card caused the same problem in 3 different motherboards.

Nothing appears wrong, no bulging capacitors or burn marks.

If anyone has any ideas as to what is causing this or a way to fix it, I’d like to hear about it.

Thanks in advance.

[ChiefZeke]

Creative forums: http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/

[puntoMX]

Only thing you can do is to clean the contacts, other than that nothing.

[Sysdll]

Thanks for the replies. Experience has taught me that if the problem can't be solved on this forum then it's time to replace the hardware and that's what I did.