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Hello people,
I'm so glad i found this forum cuz my new mobo is really giving me headaches ever since i got it.
Among many other bugs and ill-functioning details, is the sound driver. The mobo's specs say that it has AC 97 chip installed, and i got mine with a driver cd that had Soundmax drivers on it. However, when i install the drivers, the sound works, but is a bit cracky. Since i bought the mobo for good money, I would like perfect sound - so I searched for newer versions of the driver. The Soundmax's site just redirects you to Asus, and they have the same version I have.
I also tried looking it up at driverguide and Google, but it seems this is a very exotic driver.
Is it possible to install a driver other then Soundmax? There are way more reliable and available AC 97 drivers, but i don't know if it's okay with the mobo.
The other thing is hdd recognition - I installed 2 HDDs (160 Gb maxtor as master and 40 Gb IBM as slave) at primary IDE connector. My Plextor DVD is on secondary. Sometimes when I boot, the BIOS tells me that there's nothing on primary, and puts all the devices on secondary, as 3rd,4th and 5th. I really don't see how this is possible.
Sometimes the mobo wont start up at all, because of "chassis intruded" altho it's not. Sometimes it says bad checksum, sometimes it won't recognize the other hdd at all.
I tried to flash BIOS using EZ Flash method, and of course - it didn't work - bios simply rolled back - this solved the hdd problem, but i still dont understand what triggered it.
I'm sorry for the looong post, but I'm really going crazy...
P.S. When I first installed the drivers, the sound behaved very unstable. I was losing sound after every 3rd or 4th boot up. The mobo is driving me nuts. After 2 weeks of tweaking and what-not, it's still a mistery what will happen when i boot up. It seems this mobo has a very stubborn mind of it's own.
I'm so glad i found this forum cuz my new mobo is really giving me headaches ever since i got it.
Among many other bugs and ill-functioning details, is the sound driver. The mobo's specs say that it has AC 97 chip installed, and i got mine with a driver cd that had Soundmax drivers on it. However, when i install the drivers, the sound works, but is a bit cracky. Since i bought the mobo for good money, I would like perfect sound - so I searched for newer versions of the driver. The Soundmax's site just redirects you to Asus, and they have the same version I have.
I also tried looking it up at driverguide and Google, but it seems this is a very exotic driver.
Is it possible to install a driver other then Soundmax? There are way more reliable and available AC 97 drivers, but i don't know if it's okay with the mobo.
The other thing is hdd recognition - I installed 2 HDDs (160 Gb maxtor as master and 40 Gb IBM as slave) at primary IDE connector. My Plextor DVD is on secondary. Sometimes when I boot, the BIOS tells me that there's nothing on primary, and puts all the devices on secondary, as 3rd,4th and 5th. I really don't see how this is possible.
Sometimes the mobo wont start up at all, because of "chassis intruded" altho it's not. Sometimes it says bad checksum, sometimes it won't recognize the other hdd at all.
I tried to flash BIOS using EZ Flash method, and of course - it didn't work - bios simply rolled back - this solved the hdd problem, but i still dont understand what triggered it.
I'm sorry for the looong post, but I'm really going crazy...
P.S. When I first installed the drivers, the sound behaved very unstable. I was losing sound after every 3rd or 4th boot up. The mobo is driving me nuts. After 2 weeks of tweaking and what-not, it's still a mistery what will happen when i boot up. It seems this mobo has a very stubborn mind of it's own.