hi all
I am really hoping someone here has some bright ideas as i am totally out. I recently decided to upgrade from onboard sound (Asus Striker Extreme) to an XFi based Auzentech Forte 7.1 card (as usual awesome delivery from Scan cheers!). I only ever used headphones (Sennheiser HD 595) and mostly game but also listen to the odd MP3 etc.
over the weekend I uninstalled the old sound card drivers, removed the addon board, disabled the onboard sound in the bios and installed the new card into a spare PCIe slot. booted to windows and installed the downloaded drivers (1.1) from the manufs website.
thing seemed a little touch and go but eventually got sound. however, every time i tried to switch between Game Mode and Entertainment mode everything stopped and had real troubles to get any sound back (multiple reboots/shutdowns/unplug etc. Sometimes you will hear the start up windows sound however, once in windows nothing will work, other times it will work for a while but then just stop without warning, other times it works fine for entire gaming sessions etc.
so far i have uninstalled and reinstalled the sound drivers (both the 1.1 version from the website and the 1.0 from the CD) many times. swapping slots and moving the GFX card around and reinstalling the nvidia drivers for that as well. (*edit + i have been using drivercleaner to remove any other creative files etc)
nothing is working and im getting annoyed.
when the sound worked it sounded great, however, keeping it working would be kinda ideal.
has anyone had any experience with these cards and may know what i have done/am doing wrong?
asus striker extreme mobo
evga 8800GTX - latest forceware drivers from nvidia
corsair 4gig ram
Vista 64 SP2
I am only connecting the headphones via the headphone jack in the back (via an 3.5mm adapter)
I dont use speakers or have any connected.
i have tried windows audio settings of
stereo with speakers ticked
stereo without speakers ticked
5.1 with everything ticked.
under the sound card settings i have "Optimise speaker output for headphones" checked.
any help appreciated.
cheers
Jon
(sorry for long post)
*edit why didnt i see the "Help - technical & advisory" forum before putting this in here lol.. srry!