Ga-8ihxp and mx300 soundcard problems, please help!

[davehaze]

Hi all, i just upgraded and my new motherboard (ga-8ihxp) and mx300 soundcard don't get along. When i install my soundcard's drivers i am informed during the installation process that my mx300 is not installed into the primary pci bus and that certain functions may not work correctly and sure enough they don't. When i launch a game sometimes the game hangs immediately or further into it. The m/b has an onboard audio device that i disabled and i have installed the mx300 in different pci slots and have assigned it a unique irq but to no avail. I can remove the card and use the onboard audio which sounds way worse than the mx300 but then again it works..... There is another issue that i think may be related and even the cause of my soundcards problem.....i just don't know enough to be sure.... win98se finds something it calls a pci universal serial bus.... and it keeps finding it even if i delete it in device manager... i have no idea what this could be or what drivers it needs but it may be the cause of the o/s (or whatever)thinking that the mx300 is not installed in the primary pci bus. I have all the latest drivers installed.... everything worked fine and for a long time on my old system, the m/b is as far as i can tell the latest hardware version...3.0... and the bios is up to date.... i installed the chipset drivers and the intal application accelerator.. everything went smooth until the soundcard. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks!

 

[sep]

davehaze - I have this motherboard. To use another sound card make sure your disabling everything in the bios. I think there is 3 references to the onboard audio.

I'm currently using the onboard audio (Creative Labs PCI xxxx). It's not that bad. I think yours comes with the realtek.

-JC

 

[dmhinz]

I do not think you need the drivers for this card either, the Windows default ones should work just fine - I'm assuming you are using W2K or latter however....

I also suggest you go to windowsupdate.microsoft.com and get ANY/ALL available driver updates - the "PCI Serial Bus" should have been installed w/ the 850 chipset drivers - you will not be able to remove it via device manager.

-D

 

[touchmyichi]

I have an mx400 sound card and I was able to find drivers through google.

 

[Jolyon33]

You are using 98se I assume. If you are using the drivers that diamond put out, dump them and try the aureal a3d generic drivers. You can usually do a search for a3d and it will get sites that should still carry them. These drivers are about as up to date as you are gonna get for that card.