Asus sound card Driver install problems

[LordOxygen]

Hi everyone, this is my first post. I've just built a Windows 7 (home premium) HTPC in a Streacom case. All's well. Except I can't get the driver to install for My new Asus Xonar Essence STX sound card.

I have fitted it in the case and have the power cable connected. I can see the card in the Device managers. I've down loaded the 64bit win 7 Driver from Asus website (approx 10mb - rar. file) and saved to my desktop.

Right clicking on the "Multimedia Audio controller" in device manager and selecting update driver and pointing to the desktop just doesn't work. It says windows could not find the driver for your device.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

I'd be very grateful for some help please
Thanks very much

 

[Deceptor]

You download the driver from here?

If not expand the audio section and download the first one. Extract the zip and go into the folder and you'll see "Setup.exe", run that and it should take care of the rest

 

[LordOxygen]

Hi, thanks, yes i got the driver from there and saved the rar file to my desktop.
I realise from what you've said a rar. file is a zip file and needs extracting first!!!
Rather slow on my part there, thanks. will report back when its sorted.

 

[Deceptor]

No problem and welcome to the forum!

 

[LordOxygen]

Sorted! thanks again.
I'll put that down to it bring a Friday after a long week at work.