Asus M3A79-T Deluxe

[faior]

Guys wanna hear some hilarious stuff?

I was messing around in steam with my new microphone and setting up stuff etc, well then it totally messed itself up, i lost my REAR PANEL audio once and for all, it continued to work in front panel, but not back at all. (no problem here if my case or this motherboard wont give so much interferience and other noises like when dragging a window with mouse etc), then i started to look thing up why it wont work with rear panel at all, tried so many things that i dont want to list them here.

Tried VISTA and 2x Windows XP installations, VISTA worked fine and worked always, but these 2 XPs didnt at all, always the same, front works - back doesnt.

After 2 days of investigation, I just found out that windows and ATI/AMD chipset/GPU-drivers installs the REAL Integrated soundchip drivers to the HD4870 soundchip! And likewise HD4870 drivers goes to soundmax motherboards integrated chip, it LOOKS OK, but never works .. its amazing that those two uses almost the same drivers.

heres a pic

http://faior.miumau.net/LOL.JPG

I almost thrashed the MB

[gOtVoltage]

Guys wanna hear some hilarious stuff?

I was messing around in steam with my new microphone and setting up stuff etc, well then it totally messed itself up, i lost my REAR PANEL audio once and for all, it continued to work in front panel, but not back at all. (no problem here if my case or this motherboard wont give so much interferience and other noises like when dragging a window with mouse etc), then i started to look thing up why it wont work with rear panel at all, tried so many things that i dont want to list them here.

Tried VISTA and 2x Windows XP installations, VISTA worked fine and worked always, but these 2 XPs didnt at all, always the same, front works - back doesnt.

After 2 days of investigation, I just found out that windows and ATI/AMD chipset/GPU-drivers installs the REAL Integrated soundchip drivers to the HD4870 soundchip! And likewise HD4870 drivers goes to soundmax motherboards integrated chip, it LOOKS OK, but never works .. its amazing that those two uses almost the same drivers.

heres a pic

http://faior.miumau.net/LOL.JPG

I almost thrashed the MB

Can happen with 3870 series too...I usually have to reinstall the Creative sound card driver after the Vidio card Audio driver(under XP Sp2/Sp3 . If not the Videocard Sound driver will always bork the Onboard sound or Creative XFi.

No problem under Vista 32/64

[Apokalipse]

Can happen with 3870 series too...I usually have to reinstall the Creative sound card driver after the Vidio card Audio driver(under XP Sp2/Sp3 . If not the Videocard Sound driver will always bork the Onboard sound or Creative XFi.

No problem under Vista 32/64

you do know you can choose which sound card to use in the control panel (on XP 32 and x64), right?
you don't need to reinstall drivers.

I have my Xonar D2X and X-fi XtremeMusic in my PC at the same time (under XP x64)
I use the X-fi to play games, and the D2X for everything else.

[gOtVoltage]

you do know you can choose which sound card to use in the control panel (on XP 32 and x64), right?
you don't need to reinstall drivers.

I have my Xonar D2X and X-fi XtremeMusic in my PC at the same time (under XP x64)
I use the X-fi to play games, and the D2X for everything else.

Yes sir,, good point too.

It was only buggy when i would install 38xx,48xx series Drivers in which it would default to Videocard Audio instead of the PCI oe PCI-E sound card driver after a catalyst driver install. Thus i just reinstall the card driver from scratch anyways.