Cannot get sound card to work with P8P67 Board

[Reckoner]

Whenever I attempt to hook up my swan m10 speakers to my X-Fi card, I get a horrible distortion, and Creative doesn't detect the sound card. I tried switching slots and updating to the latest BIOS, but those didn't help. I also ordered a new X-Fi Titanium HD card, and it is still an issue. On board audio, on the other hand, works fine with no distortion at all. Any ideas?

 

[stahlhart]

Whenever I attempt to hook up my swan m10 speakers to my X-Fi card, I get a horrible distortion, and Creative doesn't detect the sound card. I tried switching slots and updating to the latest BIOS, but those didn't help. I also ordered a new X-Fi Titanium HD card, and it is still an issue. On board audio, on the other hand, works fine with no distortion at all. Any ideas?

I'm having trouble following your installation steps. I would think that you'd first disable the on-board audio in the BIOS, power off, plug in the new sound card, boot up -- and at this point, Windows would recognize the card and request driver media (or the location of the drivers).

I'm not understanding how you're hooking up speakers and hearing something unpleasant before you've even gotten to the point that Windows has (or has not) detected the card and installed its drivers. I usually connect the speakers and test them last, after I've completed the rest of the card's installation steps.

 

[Reckoner]

Finally got it to work. It took like 10 reboots, and Windows finally recognized the card. Weird.

 

[bankster55]

If you install Win 7 it will put in generic MS 2006 drivers in dev man sound
If you then install Realtek drivers it will ALSO install those
If you add in a sound card it will also add in those
If you install Realtek you have to delete MS in dev man
if you install sound card, you have to disable Realtek in bios and remove MS generic device
Then you have to make sure MS default sound device is the Creative

 

[stahlhart]

If you install Win 7 it will put in generic MS 2006 drivers in dev man sound
If you then install Realtek drivers it will ALSO install those
If you add in a sound card it will also add in those
If you install Realtek you have to delete MS in dev man
if you install sound card, you have to disable Realtek in bios and remove MS generic device
Then you have to make sure MS default sound device is the Creative

Noted -- thank you!