I recently bought an Asus A8N SLI Deluxe, fitted the board, processor etc, it was working perfectly fine. I ordered a new northbridge cooler, hard drive and vga cooler. Fitting went fine, apart from the northbridge cooler wouldn't stick properly to the chip, so I had to use some thermal epoxy to glue it in place. Possibly a bad idea, now my sound won't work. I'm fairly confident its not a driver issue, both XP and Vista report the device as 'Unable to start - Code 10' which from my experience means theres an IRQ conflict somewhere, perhaps the new drive? (Its SATA II, I don't think SATA devices actually use an IRQ though) Only thing I can think of is that I may have damaged the northbridge, but I'd expect other things besides the sound to have gone if that were the case. Any takers?
In certain motherboard BIOS' you can change the IRQs of devices. If it's a new drive that's caused the problem then it could be the onboard SATA controller conflicting for some reason. Make sure you're on the latest BIOS, then look in it for IRQ settings.
Done that, I've disabled the parallel port, serial port, midi and joystick devices too, still no joy. Updated to the latest bios, didn't change anything.
Yes. Tried it with the FP audio cable plugged in, and without (And yes I put the jumpers back on the pin block). Bit of an update.. I just popped my old SB Live! 5.1 in, and it detects it fine. Installed the latest Kx drivers, but I get no sound output. I'm starting to think maybe my speakers blew and fried the onboard sound.. possibly.
FWIW,, I have an Asus P5-B mobo and there aren't any IRQ assignments for the onboard audio either. So I would guess that it isn't abnormal that you don't have them. In the manual of the mobo, there's also a list of the IRQ assignments and onboard audio isn't listed there either.
Have you got Nvidia firewall on? Or even installed? Also disable the device in Device Manager, then re-enable it.
I've disabled the device, and also uninstalled it. Then tried scanning for new hardware, it doesnt find it. Also, sometimes when I boot, windows can't see it. I'm going to try with a linux livecd and see how that goes.
Yeah, I was running the latest release. I don't think they actually develop the nforce 4 drivers anymore, with the exception of the vista drivers. I've got my SB Live working fine at the moment, so I'm sticking with that for now. I've got another problem with my graphics card now, but I'll start a new thread for that.
i feel your pain. so far on my a8n-sli deluxe, i have lost: -1 pci-e slot -1 raid controller -2 ram slots -2 USB ports hpoefully my new DFI will be better.
Ouch... I think its just the cooler shorting out one of the resistors on the nb chip, that doesn't explain the graphics problem I'm having though. Basically, after about 5 minutes of gaming, my screen would turn off, then the machine would reset. Graphics temps are well within the limits (About 60c load), the only thing it could be is the power supply, with is a 530w brand new hiper.
