I got my new sound card today, and i plugged in the my PCI slot, i open my pc and run the driver setup as what other user did, but the installation failed because my pc could not detect my sc...

any solution for this?

try reseat your sc...just give a try...maybe your card not insert properly...or try with other pci slot

i've tried for few times, but it's still the same..

does ur motherboard come with an onboard soundcard? try switching that off in the BIOS first.

yeah..disable your onboard sound...sometimes some mobo automatically disable onboard sound...please check in your bios...

Yea, i cant find my onboard at bios, but i did disable the device at device manager..

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Added on January 22, 2009, 10:06 pm

i reformatted my pc, and this occurs in my deivce manager? is that my sc? but i could not install driver still..

This post has been edited by zs3889: Jan 22 2009, 10:06 PM

i think SM bus Controller not related with your sound card la...just find SM Bus controller driver in your mobo cd...

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Added on January 22, 2009, 11:48 pm

i relocate my sc again, but still, canot install the driver.

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Added on January 22, 2009, 11:49 pmhelp me please, im eager to get it done !!!!!!!!!!!!!! argghhhhhhh

This post has been edited by zs3889: Jan 22 2009, 11:49 PM

what sound card you bought it?

what's ur mboard make/model?

if u have an onboard soundcard, i believe u need to disable it first in BIOS. disabling it in device manager wont make a difference.

china card, sq210a, i've asked other user, they were fine with the driver..zzz/....

yea i tried to disable in bios, but i could not find, which one to be disabled..in integrated peripherals right??

Are you alredy install the drivers?

my problem now is the installation of the driver failed, the error is could not detect the hardware (sc).

what mobo u use? maybe it not compatible with the mobo bios.

hmmm...look like your driver not match with your hardware...try find another driver..btw what mobo you using bro..mind to list here?

Ga-P35-DS3L

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Added on January 23, 2009, 12:05 amthe seller gave us the driver. everyone is using the driver.

This post has been edited by zs3889: Jan 23 2009, 12:05 AM

forum.lowyat.net/topic/851912

forum.lowyat.net/topic/847317

take out the card, clean all the golden contacts with alcohol swabs. also clean the pci slot for any dust or foreign materials

if that fails, get a replacement card. the card itself is faulty

the led on the card is lighted up..

refer to my posted picture, i can detect the card, but the installation still failed.

Its possible that you need to re-install the Microsoft HD Audio patch. The driver CD (also check the motherboard driver one) should contain this program..

i've alrdy installed it, i google it and this version supports SP3.

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Added on January 23, 2009, 12:56 am

but still, i failed to launch the installation

This post has been edited by zs3889: Jan 23 2009, 12:56 AM

a lighted up led doesn't mean the card functions properly. perhaps a damaged caps or two somewhere

Well..here is what you shld do..

restart and re-look back in your bios setting

Ensure you have th eparticular pci slot enable and set the hardware IRQ setting to automatic.

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Added on January 23, 2009, 1:16 pmthe second photo, i could not find any option to disable my onboard sound card.. = =

This post has been edited by zs3889: Jan 23 2009, 01:16 PM

Azalia Codec is the on-board sound. Disable it

It still the same after i disable the azalia codec..

but in BIOS, the PCI there, they can detect a device is installed in the PCI slot..

Post me the Device Id and Vendor ID (Go to Device Manager --> select the unknown device and then select Details --> Hardware ID)

or alternatively run Linux and then do a lspci , itw ill print the real chipset/real name of the sound card

now at device manager canot see the unknown device alrdy, only at bios, PCI there can see a Multimedia Device - Bus5 Dev2 Func0

the card has been tested on another board and it works, what's wrong with my board

I do encountered the same problem as yours. Same motherboard but with prodigy hd2 soundcard. However after a month trial and error installed, I managed get in on. I can't recall back how but if i'm not mistaken is the OS culprit, try to update your XP/Vista or visit their Q & A. That's how I did it. Sorry pal, nothing much can help.

Ok, but i did reformat my pc, it is still the same..

anyway thx for your assist..

You should have multiple PCI slots on your DS3L.
All PCI slots fail?

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Added on January 26, 2009, 1:38 amYou should have multiple PCI slots on your DS3L.
All PCI slots fail?

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Added on January 26, 2009, 1:39 amYou should have multiple PCI slots on your DS3L.
All PCI slots fail?

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Added on January 26, 2009, 1:40 amYou should have multiple PCI slots on your DS3L.
All PCI slots fail?

This post has been edited by @meno: Jan 26 2009, 01:40 AM

Yea all gave me the same result....

maybe u'rsound card spoil try other pc

see this post

problem not yet solved..

Try again enter bios then disable the onboard sound (make sure the soundcard (pci) connect the slot firmly. then check ur device manager and click twice sound, video and game controller to see the list drivers, make sure there are no yellow question mark otherwise u have to uninstall the yellow driver.(make sure the driver listed under sound,video and game controller is the same driver as the pci soundcard(not the onboard sound driver). remember before install the pci soundcard driver, please remove the old sounddriver.
as highlander says 'There only can be one' so make sure turn-off the onboard sound.

it does not work

i've gone frustrated with my sc and pci slot

Try clearing CMOS & UNDO any overclock.

Sometimes, we'll never know if d PCI/PCI-E bus speed is really locked @default when we o/c...

Check it out!

This post has been edited by watcher: Jan 30 2009, 07:27 PM

i did not do any overclock before.....

how if my pci/pci-e bus is really locked??

Sorry for digging up this old thread but I promised the forummer to try to replicate the problems and correct it.
TS: I'd recommend that you reset your BIOS to default and re-plug the soundcard to a different port (PCI?) If that doesn't work, try to reformat and update your whole computer. Once your computer has done a full reformat to NTFS and fully updated in Windows. Then only install the soundcard driver from the disc/driver source installer and then restart. It should work that way. Just my 2 cents. Btw, sorry for making you wait so long for this such short reply.
WARNING!: Remember that when you reformat you must REMOVE the soundcard.

thx for replying me in my thread, how if after i reset my bios to default, something goes wrong? will this happen??

Simple question: Which PCI or PCI-e (PCI Express) are your card and your mobo?

This post has been edited by eclectice: Feb 14 2009, 02:39 PM

PCI...

my graphic card is using PCI-E alrdy..

hmm.. i beg u try this way, seat the soundcard to the above PCI slot. PCI-0, what i mean is, the first PCI slot, then try it. Sound uncureable? but try it, it got few percentage to make it work.