Annoying PCI Slots issue ?

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Weird one this. Not seen it before.

I got an ASUS x99 Motherboard here and I got it from the MM a while back. I had loads of problems with it, however, I found it was much mroe reliable under Linux than Windows and so its been used as a Linux box more than anything, and since its still not 100% reliable, I dont use it in any serious capacity.

It does however get used very regularly simply cos it does.

The thing is, that whenever I use an audio card, the card is seen, and everything on it does what it seems to be doing, except for the fact that I hear nothing.

Now, before I sound thick, I am using the right holes for the speakers etc etc, please trust me on all of that.

I have tried a number of Soundcards and they all do the same thing... I can see the cards just fine, I can select the output, change speaker config, volume, fade, Balance blah blah, all that, but no sound it actually produced? On any of the cards, and no matter what PCI slot I use?

I have of course tried the obvious things, even as far as tryign out other Distros or going back to an older distro, but nothing seems to work?

Onboard Audio however DOES work. I am using that for the moment, but its not as good as it could be. Its not as clear as the cards and I want to use a SoundCard.

I have a few old USB Audio devices and they are fine,. just not the PCIE Slots.

The slots seem to be working fine \because of a number of reasons. Namely that Windows is fully able to install and work the cards, no matyetr the card or the slot, plus, under Linux, any other cards I have, seem to work just fine?

So, its an irritation ( like my posts ).

Anyone have any ideas WTF is going on?
 
Sorry, in case its worth noting.

I am using a 240GB M2 SDD card for /Root and SWAP, connected to the Motherboard directly using its slot, and 2x2TB for /home and /home/data conected to SATA ports 0 and 1 and I also just found a 500GB SSD that I was looking for LOL

The GFX card is a GTX970 in the TOP Slot ( I will actually try moving that... Who knows? )
 
I am assuming you are using ALSA and not Pipewire?

If you haven't already, install the alsa-utils package and then run alsamixer - make sure your soundcard is selectable and the volume etc set to a sensible value.

Out of interest, what is the soundcard you are trying to use?
 
Wierdly, At the moment, I do seem to have everything working as it should.

ALSA / PIPEWIRE
Whatever is the default. I try not to experiment with anything as it normally works 100% fine.

Right, this is one that is quite annoying, but hey ho...

The card that is now in it and is working is the Soundblaster Z. I have the Recon3D in the Main Linux PC and thats working 100% and I tried that in this PC and I was having the same issues... I tried the Z in the main one and it was fine, so the card is good, its obviously that one PC.

So, I tried the SoundBlaster Recon3D, and the Z and also an Asus DX2 and a DX and they all had issues.

Anyway, whether I pushed the board to do something or not, I dont know, but I swapped the GFX card into another PCI slot and I chucked all the audio cards into various other slots, then found that I was able to get sound playing again, and on the Z and so I pulled the others out, disabled onboard, and only had the one card in and I had sound at last???

Swapped the slots over to the previous where they had always been and it still works, or it did yesterday. Not played today.

So why it hasnt worked for a whiol;e and now all of a sudden does again, I dont know.

But right now... Its working on the Creative Z
 
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