X-Fi and Asus A8N Premium - problem?

[Phil Stanbridge]

Hey guys just wondering if any of you have experienced the same problems - I've got a system up and running but I've had problems with the sound card. I'm using an Xtreme Music X-Fi and its installed perfectly well but no sound could be heard - I had to flash the motherboard's bios to the latest official in order to rectifty it - but now I seem to be experiencing no VGA every other cold boot. It's pretty frustrating, and its not the first time this has happened. It would *appear* to be the joint partnership of the X-Fi card and the A8N Premium thats at fault. At least I think it is. There's a lot of noise (pun intended) over on the Creative forums reference NF4 problems and the X-Fi series of cards - some people are in a worse situation than me, not even being able to post! Its pretty bad.

 

[mightynimrod]

Ouch thats not too good then - especially for Vreative, unless they find a fix.

Could it be IRQ assignment as i seem to remember that creative 5.1's had problems which manually setting the IRQ cured.

 

[Phil Stanbridge]

Ouch thats not too good then - especially for Vreative, unless they find a fix.

Could it be IRQ assignment as i seem to remember that creative 5.1's had problems which manually setting the IRQ cured.

I've no ideas mate - bloody annoying though! Seems to be intermittent though.

 

[fatty]

Didn't the tempest have the same card??? Was that ok could be psu

 

[Phil Stanbridge]

Didn't the tempest have the same card??? Was that ok could be psu

yep same motherboard and card which is weird - it doesnt happen all the time either! very strange.

 

[mcmad]

got that exact combo here, only problem I had was it wasn't recognised when i booted up, moved it to a different slot & problem solved, otherwise its been perfect.

 

[chris_ah1]

yeah, I agree with mcmad - every time I've seen a poster say its solved is if they move slot - what does the x-fi appear as to you? A400 works for me, but others have found different slot numbers work better.....who knows really.

If its intermittent then we can't be sure of anything.

 

[Phil Stanbridge]

Well there is a pattern to the NO VGA cold boot issues I am having and I still think it may be related to either the NF4 chipset, my Viewsonic VP201b or the X-Fi. I had to flash the motherboard bios to 1009 just to get the X-fi working properly, which now it is, but if I shut the pc down then restart it I get no VGA. The only way to rectify this is to restart the pc several times using the reset switch. It will then fire up. Its as if the GTX isnt receiving a powerful enough signal, who knows.. The only way to rule out the X-Fi is to remove it from the pc and then see if I get problems booting. FWIW there are loads of threads regards problems like this on various forums I'm not the only one it would seem.

Edit: I tried two slots originally and it made no difference, I had to update the firmware in the end!

 

[maverik-sg1]

Have you tried using a different DVI connector? silly I know, but it worked for me once.

Mav

 

[Phil Stanbridge]

Have you tried using a different DVI connector? silly I know, but it worked for me once.

Mav

I havent no - I was thinking about using an analogue adapter connected to the DVI lead - but I have got a spare, I shall try it now.