Windows 7 hanging until Xonar DX kicks it

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  1. dirthurts

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    Hello everyone.
    I am having trouble with my computer due to my sound card.
    Windows is hanging up on the boot screen(Windows logo) until the sound card kicks in. It's delaying my boot time by 1-2 minutes(60gb ssd). When you hear the sound card "click" it instantly displays Windows. It's pretty obviously waiting on my card.
    What can I do?
    Any suggestions would be very welcome.
     
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    Try a different PCI(PCI-E)slot
    Try updating BIOS
    Try disabling on board sound in BIOS settings

    Also I would suggest (if you haven't done this already) removing the card and the trying to boot to make sure it is really the sound card that causes delay in boot
     
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    Thanks for the replies.
    Yep, it's certainly the sound card. I tested that as well.
    I would change slots around but it's a pci express x1 slot, and I only have the one.

    I'm not big on aftermarket drivers...is this a known problem with Asus drivers?
     
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    OP, the X1 will fit into any PCIE slot regardless of X1, X8, X16. Not quite sure what your board has PCIE wise.
     
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    I cant see it dropping to x8 just for a x1 card in the x16 slot.. try it out and see what happens

    You can put any PCIE x1/x2/x4 or x8 card in to an x16 slot fine.
     
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    Well the card requires the little jumper card thing to be in the first slot to enable x16 on the one the video card sits in. Remove it and it automatically switches the both slots to x16. Dumb I know. I can't believe something like that came from ASUS...
     
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    Did you turn off the realtek onboard in bios and removed realtek drivers? Did you check the event log for errors?
     

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    Onboard is disabled.
    How do I go about checking the event log?
     
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    Ah, I may have found it.
    There is some sort of izea controller that works with audio as well. I disabled that in the bios and it seems to have fixed it. I'll continue testing and get back.

    Thanks for the info about the event viewer, but I really have no idea what I'm looking for.
    I get 4 errors when I reboot.
    2 event kernal tracking. Id- 2.
    "cap 12" id 4107.
    and service control manager Id: 7000.

    None of them are critical. Of course none of those mean anything to me...
     
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    Do you mean Azalia? If so, that's the Intel onboard audio controller.

    deltatux
     
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    Yeah that's the one!
    ha ha.
    Seems the realtek stuff I turned off wasn't audio. I didn't notice any loss of features though...
     

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    Intel audio on an AMD board? duuuuudes... It was either LAN or Sound. But whatever, as long the problem is solved ;)
     
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    All commodity motherboards regardless of chipset have been using Intel AC'97 or Intel HDA (codename Azalia) for more than a decade. It's a low cost audio solution that can be integrated on motherboards. Many AMD boards have this codec for the longest while.

    deltatux
     
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    Hence why I own and am currently jamming an ASUS Essence STX. Good times abound. Good work FULMTL btw. :thumbup:
     
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    Hehe, I really hope I can get an ST some time to do these headphones justice (had them for over a year now I think lol) :thumbup:
     
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    I know what you mean but i was not talking about any audio standard specification but about the used audio codec on that board and this is Realtek and not Intel. What he has done was probably switching his onboard audio mode from Intel HDA to AC97 or something but at the end we mean the same just with different names.
     

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