Alright, if my soundcard doesnt stop freezing my comp.. im breaking it

This new soundcard (ASUS Xonar DS 7.1) I got has been crashing my computer ever since I got it! Randomly the sound just hangs for a second and my computer becomes completely irresponsible and then I have to shut it off. Can somebody please help me! It has very poor drivers for windows 7 64 bit and all this crashing is causing me to loose data, get pissed pissed off because a game froze. It does it more than once, every day, and ive been letting it do it for about 2 months trying to fix the problem but it persists!

Sorry I have no real help here. Did you uninstall your motherboard's onboard sound drivers before installing the ASUS one? Make sure its disabled in the BIOS too. You can also try switching the slot its in.

Again, sorry I can't pinpoint the problem. I've never had a problem like that.

done everything, its just pretty much unfixable with windows 7 and i was wondering if anyone got around it. if not im going to give it to my friend for free who has vista

Could be the sound card itself, try it in someone elses comp if it does it in theirs RMA it

i really dont even want to because it only freezes every like 5 hours.....

Then just RMA and say you tested it in another computer

Why not use the onboard audio? The M4N82 Deluxe has a pretty decent Realtek chipset uspporting 8-channel HD and legacy AC '97 audio. It should be sufficient for the vast majority of even high-quality gaming and recording (and it's free!). I was a diehard sound card guy for awhile until I did a blind test and, I have to say, I'm perfectly happy with onboard with a quality board now, and you've got a quality board.

I am not going to be of any further help than the Asus Forums and Newegg Comments towards getting the XONAR card to work, otherwise. Good luck.

Boz

Why not use the onboard audio? The M4N82 Deluxe has a pretty decent Realtek chipset uspporting 8-channel HD and legacy AC '97 audio. It should be sufficient for the vast majority of even high-quality gaming and recording (and it's free!). I was a diehard sound card guy for awhile until I did a blind test and, I have to say, I'm perfectly happy with onboard with a quality board now, and you've got a quality board.

I am not going to be of any further help than the Asus Forums and Newegg Comments towards getting the XONAR card to work, otherwise. Good luck.

Boz

Bozanimal

Actually it's considered "unacceptable" with its horrible sond quality and too low SnR. This ASUS is a big improvement because not only is there a good SnR ratio, theres also an opamp. Its not anything fancy, but with some decent headphones it makes a good improvement. Not to mention you can always upgrade the opamp.

Onboard is not acceptable, at least to the people who actually care about their audio. I'm not a diehard audiophile but I'd be lying if I said onboard was even decent. My 7 year old Audigy 2 ZS sounds better than onboard.

Actually it's considered "unacceptable" with its horrible sond quality and too low SnR. This ASUS is a big improvement because not only is there a good SnR ratio, theres also an opamp. Its not anything fancy, but with some decent headphones it makes a good improvement. Not to mention you can always upgrade the opamp.

Onboard is not acceptable, at least to the people who actually care about their audio. I'm not a diehard audiophile but I'd be lying if I said onboard was even decent. My 7 year old Audigy 2 ZS sounds better than onboard.

ChubbyGuy40

My understanding was that the onboard S/N ratio only mattered if you were using the analog output. I apologize for not specifying that I am using the digital out to a home theater unit, in which case the S/N does not matter. Now I'm no expert in on-board PC audio, but the digital output seems as clear as what my DVD player is producing so far as multi-channel audio is concerned.

Boz

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Actually it's considered "unacceptable" with its horrible sond quality and too low SnR. This ASUS is a big improvement because not only is there a good SnR ratio, theres also an opamp. Its not anything fancy, but with some decent headphones it makes a good improvement. Not to mention you can always upgrade the opamp.

Onboard is not acceptable, at least to the people who actually care about their audio. I'm not a diehard audiophile but I'd be lying if I said onboard was even decent. My 7 year old Audigy 2 ZS sounds better than onboard.

Bozanimal

My understanding was that the onboard S/N ratio only mattered if you were using the analog output. I apologize for not specifying that I am using the digital out to a home theater unit, in which case the S/N does not matter. Now I'm no expert in on-board PC audio, but the digital output seems as clear as what my DVD player is producing so far as multi-channel audio is concerned.

Boz

Oh ya if you use digital it doesn't matter if you use onboard, external, sound card, ect. Its all the same since it bypasses all DACs. Your receiver matters way more. Does your onboard include Dolby Digital Live/DTS Connect? I know without that then you don't get surround sound from sources that don't have it already.

Oh ya if you use digital it doesn't matter if you use onboard, external, sound card, ect. Its all the same since it bypasses all DACs. Your receiver matters way more. Does your onboard include Dolby Digital Live/DTS Connect? I know without that then you don't get surround sound from sources that don't have it already.ChubbyGuy40

The board for both my home theater and gaming PC (one Intel, one AMD) uses a Realtek ALC888, which is one of the better on-board audio options, as is my understanding. While later versions support DD Live and DTS Connect, I am not sure which iteration of the chip I have on board, though it does seem that I'm only getting digital surround from native content, meaning DVDs with a digital track (Dolby and DTS).

Boz