Recently did a new build build with this board and a Vista home premium OEM install.
All working fine except I can't get the sound card that came with the board to work and the mobo seems to be making a rattling sound when the Hard Drive (500 gig Western Digital AAKS) comes under load. Pretty sure the noise is not hard drive related as I have swapped out a similar drive (thinking it was the hard drive making the noise) before doing a fresh Vista install on new drive. I notice that it occurs when the sata LED is flickering when under load - it is significantly audible! Wondering if this is common for the board but suspect something is wrong and RMA may be required.
The sound card that came with the board is also proving to be a problem. Vista detected it and attached a generic driver which worked ok. However, when I installed the mobo driver (including Soundmax driver) the sound disappeared and device manager does not recognise a sound system in the pc. Again, anybody have similar experience? I have downloaded the latest sound driver through the Asus site and tried this but on installing, I get an error message saying something along the lines of no sound system detected. I currently have sound after uninstalling the soundmax driver and letting Vista attach a generic one but not happy with this solution.
Final question
- If I RMA the board due to this more or less constant rattle (as stated, it's not HDD, OD or fan spinning up related), will Overclockers provide me with a new Vista OEM operating system as I'm sure I've read that the OEM product attaches itself to the mobo and won't allow a fresh install on a different mobo??
Thanks in advance all
All working fine except I can't get the sound card that came with the board to work and the mobo seems to be making a rattling sound when the Hard Drive (500 gig Western Digital AAKS) comes under load. Pretty sure the noise is not hard drive related as I have swapped out a similar drive (thinking it was the hard drive making the noise) before doing a fresh Vista install on new drive. I notice that it occurs when the sata LED is flickering when under load - it is significantly audible! Wondering if this is common for the board but suspect something is wrong and RMA may be required.
The sound card that came with the board is also proving to be a problem. Vista detected it and attached a generic driver which worked ok. However, when I installed the mobo driver (including Soundmax driver) the sound disappeared and device manager does not recognise a sound system in the pc. Again, anybody have similar experience? I have downloaded the latest sound driver through the Asus site and tried this but on installing, I get an error message saying something along the lines of no sound system detected. I currently have sound after uninstalling the soundmax driver and letting Vista attach a generic one but not happy with this solution.
Final question
- If I RMA the board due to this more or less constant rattle (as stated, it's not HDD, OD or fan spinning up related), will Overclockers provide me with a new Vista OEM operating system as I'm sure I've read that the OEM product attaches itself to the mobo and won't allow a fresh install on a different mobo??Thanks in advance all
