UCyborg wrote on Yesterday, 13:04:

I had to reboot 2 days ago because Audigy drivers crapped themselves again. It happens fairly regularly that sometime after resuming from sleep sound gets all rattling. Usually fixable by going to Sound dialog and testing another sound setup, but this time, no application could play anything anymore. And the stupid driver isn't normally stoppable, if you try to disable it in Device Manager, it prompts for reboot.

These drivers were never really stable, weren't they?

I never put my machine to sleep. I've found them (Audigy RX drivers) to be fairly stable.