Static from speakers when enabling digital out?

shabby

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Oct 9, 1999
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I have a sblive value and acs56 speakers, a couple weeks ago i started getting static from my speakers out of the blue.
I reinstalled win2k after a hard drive install and the problem was still there, it goes away after i disable digital out in creative's surround mixer, also it goes away when i pull out the digital out cable from my sb live.
Is the digital out in the sb live fubar'ed?

I also cant get the surround mixer to test my rear speakers, you know 'Rear left, Rear right'. But winamp plays fine through all 4 speakers, im stumped :confused: