SupremeFX X-Fi sound card shipped with ASUS Rampage II Extreme

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HI All :)

Now I got my new Core i7 based machine with ASUS Rampage II Extreme. As you well know this motherboard comes with that SupremeFX X-Fi sound card, which supose to be onboard but it's not - there are too many other "junk" onboard... :) . This sound card appears to be a whole full of problems as I found out afterwards by different forums :pfff: . I don't know about the sound quality 'haven't heared anything yet 😀 . However none of those forums discusses exactly my problem, here it is:

The OS detects 3 (yes three) sound cards instead of one?! When I started installing the driver, it was properly installed for one of them and the others were hangining as yellow question-marks in device manager. NO sound of course.

I've installed driver for each one of them and when it was done their status was code 10 "device cannot start", and of course that's because there is no device!

I want to get rid of my "extra" sound cards (sell them to somebody maybe 😀 ). I can't just uninstall them by right click on their respective yellow question-marks in device manager 'cause the next time I turn on the PC Windows will detect them again and will annoy me asking to install driver :fou:

Any help will be appraised.

If you need some more info about my hardware, feel free to ask me! :)
 
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RMA means Return Merchanise Authorization, simply put, when you want to return a product back to the vendor or seller, IF they'll let you return it, you need to request an RMA number from them first, this way they can track the return. When requesting an RMA number you usually specify whether you want a replacement or return.

Just curious, did you try one of your other sound cards first? That SupremeFX card that comes with the Rampage II Extreme is junk itself, it's a software based sound card, not hardware. In other words, most of the sound processing is done through software. A card such as a Creative X-Fi Xtreme Gamer is much better.

I hope this helps you.
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i have the exact same problem with this soundcard.. don't know whats up really WHY DOESEN'T IT WORK?! i can't install the driver because there is no soundcard installed:S um yea it is!! its glowing in there and everything so i cant see why it doesent show.. FU asus u screwed me big time
 
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BUMP: Try installing it in the first (black) PCI-E x1 slot.

From what I've been able to find, the black slot is not a normal PCI-E x1 slot - it's actually designed purely for use with the "sound card" (which is effectively just a riser card for the jacks/sockets and doesn't do anything useful).

If this works and the other two don't, it confirms my fear that the board only has 2 working PCI-E x1 slots, both of which are right next to the graphics card slots. Then the graphics cooler makes the first unusable, leaving just one PCI-Ex1 slot, which has to be used with a real sound card because the one they've included isn't a sound card at all.
This results in there being one remaining expansion slot (PCI) once a second graphics card and its cooler cover the lowest PCI slot.

I think making that black PCI-E x1 slot proprietary was a stupid move on Asus's part. It looks like a pretty decent board otherwise, it's just the layout that lets it down.
 
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I too have the Asus Rampage III Mobo...I have the Formula ROG edition, but basically the same mobo. The problem I am having is with the Realtek drivers are overiding the Sound Blaster drivers. Im my device mgr I see 3 or so sound drivers...one is Realtek and one nVidia (Which is installed with the nVidia Driver) and one for my logitec webcam.

I keep trying to uninstall the Realtec and get the Soundblaster device to show up. The card is there...its built on the motherboard...Ive used the software and activated it and just cannot get it to override the Realtec driver.

Ive also enabled SPDIF in the bios and enabled Hi-Def Audio...I wonder if this is the problem...Im gonna try to disable the HiDef audio from the Asus BIOS setting. I remember with my old P5N32 SLI Deluxe mobo I had to disable the Audio97 in bios so my SoundBlaster card would work (That one was a PCI card...not built onto the mobo)

Any suggestions would be helpful, if you could tell me how u got rid of the Realtec drivers without doing a reinstall of Windows 7 Ult


Sav
 
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