ok this is strange just plummbed in all my new equipment to my pc.. go to post....nothing so methodically start taking things out.. ram graphics etc.. nothing worked untill i removed the sound card.. xfi extreme music. as soon as i removed that the system booted up fine and was able to put in a fresh install of win7 64bit. now i really want to be able to use this sound card... any ideas? cheers in advance matt
Try another PCI slot? Maybe a faulty xfi? BIOS update? When you say nothing, do you literally mean nothing - no leds, no psu coming on, no fans spinning? Or would it at least post?
I had that happen one day with the first PCI X-Fi I had. Turns out it was broken, so I replaced it with a PCI-E OEM X-Fi. I only had the Music edition which cost me £34 at the time, and the OEM one was quite a bit less, and went into my 1x PCI-E slot. Anyway rambling aside, my card was dead, yours may be too. RMA it if its brand new. Btw, loving the Buddy Jesus avatar
cheers for resoponses ok managed to boot into windows with it in now its found a card and saying multimedia audio controller... so the drivers aint installing properly im guissing. downloading lasted ones to give them a go. if it was dead im guessing it wouldnt reconise the card at all. seems liket this has been going on a lot with these cards from browsing the web glad u like the avatar!! lolz
