asus xonar essence st problems??

Squeeze · 8 Dec 2012 at 11:20

hi all

ive had this card for a few days and to start with all was good but when i turn my pc on now i have to reload the drivers all the time as i cant get any sound out of the headphones or speakers.

all the bars are going up and down on the equalizer and in the windows settings there just seems to be no output

the drivers are the latest from asus is there any better ones

Marsman · 8 Dec 2012 at 12:37

I'm guessing you have the settings right, otherwise you would have had no sound at all. It's possible there is some issue with the drivers. You could try Brainbit's Unified Xonar drivers, see if they help.

Squeeze · 8 Dec 2012 at 14:58

yes thanks for that ive just found them somewhere else and for now it seems to have solved the problem.

thanks

Marsman · 8 Dec 2012 at 18:25

Asus drivers are pretty good, but then I'm bound to say that as I have never had an issue with Asus drivers with the three Xonar cards I've had. Some people find they are terrible. Brainbit's modified drivers solve a lot issues for people.

Squeeze · 10 Dec 2012 at 15:06

hey all

its done it again even with brainbits drivers??

anybody have any suggestions?

melmac · 10 Dec 2012 at 15:26

Things to try,

Turning off onboard audio in the bios,
Try the card in a different slot in your motherboard.

If neither of those work, then you might have a glitched driver install somewhere.
use this (it's free)

http://treexy.com/products/driver-fusion

remove all the old asus/brainbit drivers then try to reinstall them.

Squeeze · 10 Dec 2012 at 16:06

yep ive tried all that and its working again but it always seems to go after a shutdown

yuep soon as i turn pc off it wont do sound anymore

melmac · 10 Dec 2012 at 17:27

Even doing the driver removal?

Must be a faulty card, any chance you could try it in a different PC?

Squeeze · 10 Dec 2012 at 18:23

yes i could try it in a diiferent pc.

its all ok if i justput pc in sleep mode or restart it.

it only happens when i power down

melmac · 10 Dec 2012 at 18:33

It's very unusual problem. Is it something as simple as a faulty power connector? Have you tried using a different floppy power cable?

Squeeze · 10 Dec 2012 at 18:38

all the graphic equalizer is working and it all clicks when you start up but just no sound you can install drivers again and not even do a restart and it works again.

there are others like it on the net but most have just changed drivers and it has worked again.

im a bit stumped it works great untill i turn it off

i may just never turn it off again lol

melmac · 10 Dec 2012 at 18:48

bizarre!! lol

good idea, I never turn off my computer!!

Sighn · 11 Dec 2012 at 00:55

Going to try in the other computer?

Squeeze · 11 Dec 2012 at 16:03

woooow calm down.

ive just tried it in another computer and all is fine so it cant be card.

i just put card back in my computer and let windows sort out drivers and it seems to have worked it uses something called oxygen hd?

ive turned pc on and off and all is good.

i havnt a clue but it works

Marsman · 11 Dec 2012 at 16:15

Oxygen HD is the chip/s created by C-Media, which Asus used in the Xonar cards. You can get modified drivers which allow you to use C-Media's control panel, rather than the Asus one. Possible Windows installed C-Media's drivers.

Forgot to ask this before, are you using Windows 8?

zoomee · 11 Dec 2012 at 16:18

Sounds like an IRQ conflict issue possibly.....

Squeeze · 11 Dec 2012 at 16:38

no im using win 7 64

put the brainbit uni drivers on and it #s back to losing sound again.

i tried the windows thing again and now it says it cant find any drivers to install??

zoomee · 11 Dec 2012 at 17:05

WARRIORLOW said:
no im using win 7 64

put the brainbit uni drivers on and it #s back to losing sound again.

i tried the windows thing again and now it says it cant find any drivers to install??

Ensure the HDMI audio out on your graphics card is disabled? Nvidia ones sometimes cause problems.

Squeeze · 11 Dec 2012 at 17:33

ive put oxygen driver back on for now and it is ok again.

ill turn amd hdmi thingy off.

its a right pain cos i cant even sell on really as i suppose it dont work proper or may not work proper on someone elses machine.

booooooooooo

Marsman · 11 Dec 2012 at 18:36

I wouldn't worry about selling it on. It's not the card. If it were, you'd have had the same trouble in a different PC. Likely a conflict with your system somewhere.