I then seated the card differently again, and the same problem happened again. The CPU fan stopped spinning, the speakers failed to beep, and the PC repeatedly rebooted every 10 seconds with no user input. To my complete shock and fright, a far worse problem occurred.

This time, I physically removed the card again. Utterly fed up, I stripped all the drivers from my PC once again. Instant, simple error message: 'No audio card detected', or something along those lines. I rebooted my PC when it prompted me to.Īfter this 'successful' installation, I launched the Asus audio settings application (forgot the name) to check out the new features I paid for. The driver installation apparently worked, and made me incredibly relieved. I then tried the installation via 'Run as Administrator' mode. This time, I wiped all traces of the drivers and restarted my PC. While installing the drivers from the website, the exact same issue occured. Slightly irritated, I took the card out, repeated the installation process but using drivers from the Asus website instead of the disc. The installation got stuck when the bar was almost filled, and after about 5 minutes I got an error stating that I need to insert the audio card. I inserted the driver CD that came with the card, and began installing the drivers. When I turned the PC back on, I cancelled the Windows driver search as the Xonar manual dictates. I did the usual procedure for installing a sound card, simply slotting it in firmly then securing with a screw. I disabled the on-board drivers in the BIOS, then turned off the PC and unplugged all cables. Today I received a new Asus Xonar DG 5.1 sound card.

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