Asus Xonar HDAV1.3 Slim

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I've built my media centre and all is well......bar the sound. I had the sound working just fine through the motherboard audio, but due to wanting better sound from Blu Rays, I went out and brought a Asus Xonar HDAV1.3 Slim.

A lovely sounding card when it works! I have disabled the on-board sound in the BIOS and I haven't installed the motherboards Realtek audio. When I install the Xonar, all works well, music sounds great and it's firing on all cylinders. Then I restart the PC and all goes to pot.

If I try to play a song through Windows Media Player/ Centre, I get nothing. If I go to the control panel mid song and load up the sound tab, there is the Xonar (default) with the sound scale to the right of it flashing away. If I load up the Asus Xonar bundled control panel, it shows the same sound graph banging away. All this, but no sound through my speakers. The sound card has 2 HDMI sockets on it. An input from the graphics card and then an output which should carry the picture and audio. I'm getting the picture just fine.

When installing the drivers for the sound card, It installs 'Speakers' and 'S/PDIF Pass-through Device'

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Here is the Xonar control panel.

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I have this set to 6 channels, PCM at any setting and 5.1 speakers. The sound dial on the right is set to max as I control the overall sound via the amp.

So the computer seems to think it's outputting sound. Sound graphs etc... move to the beats but I'm hearing nothing. If I reinstall the card I'll get sound back again until I restart the computer as I've done this once. I have the latest drivers, but I'm still stuck.

Signed,

Hopeless...
 
I had something like this last night when I installed my xonar d2x. Could not get my speakers to output sound correctly if at all. i think my problem was related to the way vista was interpreting the wrong device despite showing the xonar as default. It kept showing prefference to ATI high definition audio (presumably connected to my 6950 and samsung tv connected via hdmi as opposed to the xonar. Now that everything is working properly, Under speakers my sound settings show Asus xonar d2x audio device as working. Under Digital Output it now says Asus Xonar d2x audio device as working. Under a second Speakers symbol it says Asus Audio converter as working and underATI HDMI output it now says not plugged in. As daft as it sounds I installed the online updates and then deleted everything again because I was getting screen corruption on the Asus controll panel. I then reinstalled the original drivers that came with the disk and selected the top Speakers tablet as default once I correctly reconfigured them. Hope this helps?
 
Cheers for the response.

Trying to get the card to work after reinstalling, I uninstalled any ATI sound based drivers, and motherboard Realtek audio and disabled on board sound via the BIOS. I then had a clean sheet and installed the Asus again from scratch. It worked until I reinstalled. It's like it's not being sent down the HDMI, even though the picture is and it's (as fair as I'm aware) being told to.
 
Right, for future references, I think I may have cracked it as I just restarted and it still works.....

Even though the computer has the onboard sound disabled in the BIOS and no other audio devices bar the Asus under 'Sound' in the control panel, Also in device manager, I made sure it's only Asus under the 'Sound, video and game controllers'. It still wouldn't work!

After fannying around for a bit longer, I found on the device manager, under 'System Devices' there is a 'High Definition Audio Controller'. Disable this hiding one as well and I see to be going strong.

Windows just doesn't seem to want to use it even if it is set as default.
 
Just checked that but I dare not touch it in case everything gets messed up again lol.

it took me 5 hours last night to sort my problem out-and that included trying to find suitable space for the card because it was pci-express. Suffice it to say my 6950 overlapped two of the slots and the third is squeezed up against the heatsing on a gigabyte ds3r. Not only that, the bottom of the xonar overlaps on to the plastic brackets at the edge of my ram slots?
 
Right.....If I uninstall the 'High Definition Audio Controller', it comes back when I restart windows. If I get rid of it, my Asus card seem's (!?) to work.

Can I disable this from ever loading as it seems to reinstall itself unwantedly. I'm thinking services.msc and disabling windows audio, but I don't know if this will just stop windows creating the audio to be sent to the audio cards!?

Time to find out!

Stopping the two audio services doesn't work out. It stops any windows audio functions e.g. the 'sounds' menu in the control panel opening. Back to the drawing board.
 
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I am guessing here but try this:
After trying many different things including repeatedly disabling / uninstalling the device, I finally uninstalled it, rebooted in safe mode, after it was detected I disabled it and then rebooted once again. So far it has stayed disabled... Only time will tell if this will last or not.
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Not quite sure if this is connected to your problem in anyway but I am clutching at straws. Might give you a few ideas: http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?p=3877614
 
I've played about again today. If I uninstall the microsoft audio, reboot, the Asus works. Fine.

When I reboot again, the Microsoft drivers automaticly reinstall, but it's down as unrecognised in device manager to start with. Due to this, the computer seems to take the Asus to be the default card and my sound still works.

Then a further reboot and mine sound is playing up again. It's found the Microsoft drivers, it's labelled correctly in device manager, and it has also popped up under 'sound' now from the control panel. This is when my sound stops working.

So i'm pretty sure I'm on the right tracks for what ever reason it's happening.

I'll try the safe mode uninstall.
 
Good luck with that :I suppose I am lucky in the fact that I changed my mind and decided not to buy the HDAV1.3 at the last minute, going for the d2x instead (though it did take a number of hours to sort it out).

Edit: Just came across your post on another forum.Maybe you'll have to wait for the Windows 7 service pack on Feb 22 afterall?
 
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ethan said:
Good luck with that :I suppose I am lucky in the fact that I changed my mind and decided not to buy the HDAV1.3 at the last minute, going for the d2x instead (though it did take a number of hours to sort it out).

Edit: Just came across your post on another forum.Maybe you'll have to wait for the Windows 7 service pack on Feb 22 afterall?
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It's on 3 forums! Where I brought it, here and the manufactures.

I brought the card for Blu Ray audio and it's slimline size due to the case. Are there many alternatives?
 
Still the bain of my life. I used the safe mode tip to stop the Microsoft audio card from loading up. It's found, but permanently disabled now.

With this in mind, I think I'll reinstall the Asus again as there will hopefully be no conflicts at all and see how it fairs.
 
ethan said:
Good luck with that :I suppose I am lucky in the fact that I changed my mind and decided not to buy the HDAV1.3 at the last minute, going for the d2x instead (though it did take a number of hours to sort it out).

Edit: Just came across your post on another forum.Maybe you'll have to wait for the Windows 7 service pack on Feb 22 afterall?
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Right then, I'm downloading the update and hoping for the best!
 
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