Mobo wont boot with soundcard in

Boozebeard · 24 May 2010 at 13:26

I've got an x-fi extreme gamer card (PCI) that worked in my old motherboard, although sometimes after taking it out and putting it back in it wouldnt detect it so I would have to move it around untill it worked. Anyway basically my problem is when I put it in my new mobo my pc wont even post. All the fans turn on and theres this kind of clicking noise that comes from something but nothing ever comes up on my display.

I can't find anything usefull in my bios settings except something called PCI IRQ settings but I don't know what they do.

Any ideas?

momo56 · 25 May 2010 at 21:30

I had a similar problem with a diff sound card and this was due to cooling fluid leaking inside the pci-e slot. Im not saying its fluid but maybe you have some sort of short circuit ? Check underneath and try cleaning the slot ?

momo56 · 25 May 2010 at 21:31

Or maybe the possible short is on the actual sound card?

Freddie1980 · 26 May 2010 at 13:30

I had troubles with my old X-Fi gamer PCI card as well, if I rebooted the PC say for a Windows update when it loaded back into Windows I would have no sound, when I checked in the Control Panel the card was there but with a yellow explanation mark over it. However if I shut down the PC rather the rebooted and turned it back on it worked fine, I believe the problem was with the capacitors Creative used, on reboot because the PC is still holding a small charge the caps didn’t clear down properly which somehow caused it not to work in Windows.

You problem sounds a bit more serious then mine but I doubt it’s is IRQ conflict, IRQ conflicts are very rare these days the only thing I can suggest is try a different PCI socket if you have one and try your sound card in another PC and see if still works. If it does work fine then RMA your motherboard or live with onboard sound and if it turns out the X-Fi is dead then get it replaced with an Asus Xonar STX/ST.