Asus Xonar DX Or Something Else In My PC?

Overslop · 18 Jun 2008 at 00:24

Hey guys,

Got my new Asus Xonar DX today.

Had some issues getting it working - blue screen, random shutdowns etc.

Eventually did get it installed and it sounded good!

Unfortunately it came with side effects. The PC was extremely slow to POST and whenever the PC shut down there was a squeak from inside the PC.

Then the real issues began. The PC simply wouldn't POST at all. Removing the card did not help. Clearing the CMOS didn't help. Eventually stripping down to the most basic parts, removing the motherboard battery and then replacing it later got my PC working again. I then replaced the Asus Xonar DX and the same problems returned. I had to repeat the procedure of removing everything and waiting again.

I'm now fully reassembled without the DX in my system and everything's running normally.

I'm going to call the retailer I bought from tomorrow to arrange a replacement.

But I'm concerned it may not be the card that is causing the issue...

* I did make sure that the card had a molex cable connected to it.

* I checked all the cabling in the PC.

* I replaced the molex cable.

I don't have any more of those tiny PCI-E sockets to try the card in.

Should I have tried putting the molex cable into a different socket in the PSU? I'm pretty sure it was in the correct place but maybe that one socket could be faulty?

Any ideas guys?

Vir · 18 Jun 2008 at 10:58

Well it's either the Xonar card or the motherboard.

Get a replacement for the Xonar and update your motherboard to the latest bios, ain't really more you can do I think

Aod · 18 Jun 2008 at 18:03

the Squeek from your computer at shutdown is caused by the 8800GTX

Overslop · 18 Jun 2008 at 19:24

Aod said:
the Squeek from your computer at shutdown is caused by the 8800GTX

It never happened before installing the Xonar DX though. :confused:

Aod · 18 Jun 2008 at 19:36

Overslop said:
It never happened before installing the Xonar DX though.

wierd. not all people with 8800GTX's have it, but i do, as do both my friends who have them

Overslop · 18 Jun 2008 at 20:14

Aod said:
wierd. not all people with 8800GTX's have it, but i do, as do both my friends who have them

I think I read something about that before. Wasn't it fixable with a BIOS update? Could be wrong...

Overslop · 19 Jun 2008 at 00:58

Thanks to a suggestion from Tute, my card seems to be working OK now.

I plugged it into a PCI-E x4 slot instead of the PCI-E X1 slot and that did the trick.

It's still squeaking on shutdown and delaying POSTing. Any ideas on how to sort that out?

Tute · 19 Jun 2008 at 01:50

Do you have another PC you can try the Xonar in?

Overslop · 19 Jun 2008 at 06:15

Afraid not, the other one in this household is old-school. I don't know anyone locally with newish PCs, they're ALL mac boys.

Aod · 19 Jun 2008 at 14:55

Overslop said:
they're ALL mac boys.

the scum!

Leporello · 19 Jun 2008 at 15:58

My GTX squeaks on shutdown too. It's nothing to worry about and I think it has something to do with a capacitor on the GFX card.

Aod · 20 Jun 2008 at 21:14

Leporello said:
My GTX squeaks on shutdown too. It's nothing to worry about and I think it has something to do with a capacitor on the GFX card.

i'm fairly sure that its because of the low-power warning built into the 8800GTX, which goes off then you power down the PC as the PSU cuts output to the rails while the card still has power.