🚀 go-pugleaf

Hello, I'm looking for help on two problems:

1) My Audigy is working remarkably well, but is FAILING the Norton 
Utilities 2000 Diagnostics under Windows for the Sound Card. It starts to 
play the sound test then fails almost immediately. It always fails in the 
same spot, trying to play an 11Khz, 8-bit, stereo wav. My Live! card does 
not fail the same test in the exact same machine and OS (Win98SE). Could 
someone please try to reproduce this Audigy failure with Norton Diags for 
Windows please? My Audigy card works fine otherwise and passes its OWN 
diagnostic program and passes DirectX 8.1 diags, so this is just plain 
weird! I've tried different slots, different driver versions, different 
BIOS settings, etc already.

2) This 2nd problem is more esoteric and concerns BOTH the Audigy and the 
Live. It could be a game problem related to system speed, or a 
motherboard problem. The symptom is that in the game Might & Magic 7, the 
"footstep" sound drops in an out randomly.. it works for periods raging 
from 1 to 10 seconds, followed by similar periods of it not working. When 
it is not working, I just hear a very faint click, as if the sound is 
simply being cut off very quickly. My motherboard is an Abit KR7A 
(KT266A) with an Athlon XP. This problem does not happen on my wife's 
Duron 700 Asus A7V system even though she also has a Live card. I tried 
all the PCI latency settings in the BIOS as well as all the special 
"latency" patches and they dont make a bit of difference.

Thanks to any who answer, especially for question 1!

Flavius