audiophile 2496 problems, click and pops o'rama! Options

[silkworm]

has anyone used or installed a midiman delta audiophile 2496 (for macg4)and had any problems with clicking and poping at the beginning of each track(audio track)i have installed this little sucker 7 times to the manafacturers instructions,and have tryed changing the buffer and sample rates,pretty sure it has something to do with the driver because the extension sends a pop when loading on startup....
ELP'!

[dman]

Okay -- here's my latest:

I had a TON of problems with clipping when I recorded thru my Eurorack MXB1002 mixer to my 2496. I found that I had to turn the mic gains almost all the way down - the card is very sensetive - also, despite other advice I've read on this forum, I had to set the input levels WAY DOWN in the M-Audio Delta control panel. I set them to -16db for the channel I was recording through and I got much better results.

And RE: the 3rd slot -- I installed the card in that slot originally, and I still get the occasional pop.

Here's my new beef: I have everything hooked up and recording well (through the demo version of Cubase -- GREAT for recording, WORTH THE DOWNLOAD! -- I gotta buy this when I get some $$), but when I use Reason, I get a mix of 15% music and 85% white noise through my monitors. Anyone have any ideas?