sound blaster card #%$^%%$^ up bad

when i play bf2142 and enable hardware sound, then enable EAX for my audigy se, it messes the sound up pretty bad. I can hear little clicks and electronic whirrs everywhere, it's hard to describe but i know it's not part of the game and it's very annoying, and it does it whether i'm around action or by myself. The game announcer that says things like "We're losing this battle, fight harder men!!" is completely choppy and broken up, like talking on a bad cellphone connection. When he talks it also seems to chop the whole game up framerate wise. The other voices like the soldiers on my team seem ok. Disabling EAX fixes the problem, i've tried this online and offline and in different maps.

I just bought this card from walmart, but noticed that the instruction book had been used before, and the screwhole to screw the card into the case's expansion slot has an engraving where someone has already put a screw in it. So it's obviously a return. Is this problem I'm having with my computer, or could it be the reason this card was returned before?

I think the card was bad to begin with, but Walmart managed to rewrap it and turn around to sell to you.

Unless it was specifically marked as 'open box', I believe that would be considered an illegal business maneuver, and seriously consider calling the police, or some legal personnel as well. Or if you'd prefer to be more civil about it, return the card and explain the problem. It could be benefit of the doubt and a simple oversight by some incompetent in inventory control... but if they were low enough to stoop to selling a 'used' card as new, I know I'd be very leery about giving them any further business.

this is alabama and i'm sure they do that all the time around here. the manager where i work tells us to do the same thing (selling broken stuff) but i don't listen to her, i'll go bust it up and throw it awaySaiTokoKeimei