Audigy 2 ZS problem?

[MrToilet]

I've been having a really, really annoying problem with my Audigy 2 ZS. A few minutes into playing any DirectX game (Max Payne 2, UT 2004, Half Life 2, etc), the audio suddenly becomes garbled, I get a static type sound, the audio loops, and the game freezes. The only way to get out of the game is to restart.

I have the latest drivers for Audigy 2, and the 77.72 Forceware drivers for the 6800, and the latest nForce 3 chipset drivers.

Setup:
Athlon 64 Venice 3000+ @ 2.6 gHz
Corsair XMS 1 GB
BFG 6800 OC 16/6
Audigy 2 ZS
DFI LAN PARTY NF3 Ultra

I'm wondering if my overclocking has anything to do with this? Right now I'm running the CPU @ 290x9, RAM is on the 2:3 divider @ 195. Would the extra speed be stressing out the PCI slots?

By the way, the Audigy 2 ZS is on the lowest PCI slot. There are no IRQ conflicts or anything like that, so I'm really confused.

Thanks for the help!

 

[orangat]

If the pci clock is not set to run async, it could be a problem.
Has this problem always happened? What if the PC isn't overlocked?
If changing PCI slot doesn't work, I recommend the pci latency tool but only if the previous measures were tried first because I don't think the tool would work anyway.

 

[MrToilet]

I know this is a dumb question, but where is the PCI clock? I've looked through the BIOS and haven't really found anything relating to that. Where would I start looking?

And I've had it happen when the PC isn't overlocked (200 FSB instead of 290). It just takes longer to freeze up, but I think that may be subjective. The problem is that it still happens!

What "speed" are the PCI slots supposed to run at, anyway? How does it relate to AGP/FSB speed on Nforce 3 boards?