Dell precision 620 Work station Kernel 2.2.17-7.4 and on-board audio integrated Crystal SoundFusion CS4614 PCI sound controller with Crystal AC97 CS4297 Codec Configuration Dual 933 Mhz processors 768 Mb ram cdrom 250 ZipDrive floppy 1.44 on-board integrated Crystal SoundFusion While playing wav files using on-board audio and kernel 2.2.17- 7.4 "esd", "esdplay", "gnome" and "KDE" wav file will start to play then start clicking then the system will lock, system has to be rebooted. cdaudio works fine.
Resolved with 2.2.17-8