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Now that I think back I have heard crackling sounds at times when I switch off the power, should have checked it out then. Was lucky damage was quite minimal in this case. Yea the wavlink driver was definitely installed, works perfect when in the PCIEx4 slots. When moved to the x16 slots, it...

Thank god, I read your post and a thought came to my mind, maybe the power cable to the GPU is failing. Took the PC apart to inspect each connection and found this: Melted vs normal pin. Plastic melted into PSU slot. Not entirely sure what led to this, a sign the PSU is about to be done or...

Thanks for the advice. Have changed the legacy settings for the PCIE slots and set main GPU to run on PCIE, all no luck in detecting external Graphics Cards on both PCIE x16 slots. As you mentioned, this model of Asus motherboard is not very reliable had to RMA once due to random hard freezes...

Thanks for the advice. Event Viewer & Reliablity monitor show multiple errors for unexpected shut downs. Even during periods that I didn't observe any abnormalities, maybe this is a symptom of PSU issues? I don't have access to a multimeter but, within bios the voltage is shown. 3.3, 5, 12...

Was wondering if anyone is aware of a way to check if PCIE slots are likely/certainly faulty? Both MB PCIEx16 slots not detecting any GPUs (in bios "not present" and nothing in device manager). PCIEx16 slots can detect my PCIEx1 network card only in bios, shows up device manager but in error...

Somehow Windows 10 update messed up my audio. Voices in videos for example became very soft yet the background audio are normal. Reinstalled Nvidia HD Audio driver, checked that it was in stereo instead of 5.1 on my earphones, all to no avail. Does anyone know a solution to this issue?