Asus A8N-SLI Problems?

[artemicion]

I'm having problems with a new system I just built, and I'm guessing that it's the motherboard since it's refurbished (A8N-SLI, non deluxe, refurbished from newegg).

First off, when I stuck my Audigy 2 ZS in there, it won't properly detect it. When I try to install the drivers for it, it complains that I don't have an Audigy 2 ZS installed. And oh, it's in there for sure. I tried moving it to a different PCI slot and still nothing. Device Manager reports that there is one "Unknown Device" on the computer, and I'm guessing it's the sound card. I'm fairly certain it's not the sound card because I pulled it from a different computer and it was working fine.

Secondly, something is goofy with my firewire port. I installed iTunes and the iPod software, but when I plug my iPod in via firewire, nothing happens. Strangely enough, the iPod does say it is charging while it's plugged in.

Is it likely that these are mobo problems? I wanted to try seeing if flashing the bios would help, but the crappy asus download website went awol before I could read the instructions on how to flash it. I downloaded the most recent bios and the awd flash utility, but I don't know how to use it. Do i have to boot to dos to use it?

 

[Promethply]

Try emailing the Creative support team, they're very helpful, and should be able to help sort out your problem

 

[mlc]

do a search in this forum ... as I seem to recall a lot of issues earlier in the year using the Audigy with this board.. Don't recall if it was fixed by a BIOS upgrade or a driver upgrade by Audigy...

 

[Promethply]

Just a silly question, but did you disable the onboard Realtek sound chip in the BIOS?

 

[artemicion]

yeah, when i was trying to install the audigy initially i had the onboard sound disabled in the bios, i switched it back on now that i stopped trying though

but none if this explains my firewire problems though . . . do i need to install asus drivers for my chipset to get it to work or something? i'm jusing the nforce drivers from nvidia atm . . .

 

[Promethply]

AFAIK, WinXP SP2 supports firewire, so that when you install that OS and SP2, the firewire port will be recognized automatically.

You can check in Device Manager whether "IEEE 1394 Bus host controllers" has any question or exclamation mark. If there is, just update the driver, and when a dialog box comes up select the radio button "Install the software automatically". Hope this helps.