Asus Xonar Essence ST

[looper]

I have had the above sound card for 2-3 yrs now. Sound quality has been excellent both in games and music.

The big problem has been that @ twice a month the card is just gone/not 'seen' by DM. I've tried different drivers, disconnecting/re-connecting, uninstall/re-install, different molex connectors from MB, blowing out dust from case... and then it will work. For a while.... then the same process over again...

Yesterday, I was so sick of having to do this that I pulled the card out of my comp and am now using onboard sound.

Ideas?

 

[Burpo]

Common Problem.. "This happens when the EEPROM on the card gets overwritten.
(This EEPROM stores the PCI subsystem vendor and product IDs; when it gets overwritten, the main chip cannot read the subsystem IDs and uses a default ID (13F6:8788) which is not recognized by the Xonar driver.)"

Kind of a pain but below link details fix.

http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Xonar_EEPROM_Failure

 

[looper]

Yikes... thx for info. I will attempt to do one of those options to solve this....What a PITA... (the card and process, not you... lol )

Ridiculous to me that Asus never addressed that issue in multiple driver releases for this sound card.... and very expensive card... think I paid around @ $200. or so.....

Had 'chat' w/ live Asus tech support about 3 hours ago... why wouldn't the tech be aware of the issue? Dumb question I guess.