I cant find the drivers ... is this a rebranded version of anouther Asus product?

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Hey ok the story goes. My friend Bought a Republic of Gamers Rampage Extreem Mobo about 3 months a go, which came with a dedicated audio card.

Well he bought a new i7 motherboard with an inbuilt sound card and sold his old Mobo without the sound card attached and sold it to me for £10. But I cant find any drivers for this thing. Some people were dubious and thought the sound card was inbuilt into the mobo. Just to make sure you know thats not the case here are some pics. One of which has loads of numbers on the back which might mean something to you guys.

I am thinking it could be anouther of Asus Audio cards re branded to fit in with the Republic of Gamers theme.



 
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Yes, as I suspected, this is a proprietary bundled card. Have you tried installing it yet? I have a feeling that you will not be able to fit it into a standard PCIe slot. These type of audio cards are usually designed to go in a special slot on the original motherboard.

If by some chance it does fit and your computer recognizes the hardware, you will have to get the drivers for this from ASUS's website under the motherboard that it came from. Even then, it may not be supported properly. But, it's worth a shot. :)
 
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Well I plugged it in. Windows said installing device drivers but the odd thing is its not even recognised in device manager. So how did it "install" the device drivers.

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All it can see is my inbuilt sound card and my webcam Mic which is via the USB not the mic lead I have included which makes me wonder why have that lead lol.

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See it gets power .... just no luck on the drivers.

Would it be worth un-installing all audio drivers? And starting again?
 
Vista/Xp 32/64bit? Try going to the asus website and getting the software/drivers for it from there.
 
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Like said, just go to Asus site, look up the Rampage Extreme and download the sound drivers. I dont see any reason it wold not work on another board.
 
bomberboysk said:
Vista/Xp 32/64bit? Try going to the asus website and getting the software/drivers for it from there.
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Sorry I never said in this post. I downloaded their drivers and they wont install.

And as I said I am more confused as to why it cant detect my card at all as shown in the picture of devices above.

I'm running vista 64bit, and have uninstalled the drivers for the inbuilt sound. Don't know how to disable them in bios though.
 
StrangleHold said:
From what I have read, its not a Creative at all. It has either a ADI AD2000B or AD1988B chip.
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It says on the front "Powered by Creative X-Fi" well creative do an X-Fi range so I thought it would have been them. Oh well I will google what you said. Hopefully that will help me :)
 
That "soundmax audio device" is quite possibly the sound card, as from what ive read googling the soundmax audio drivers from asus are the ones you want for the card. Also for the "x-fi" software stuff, download the
"Sound Blaster X-Fi Utility V1.0 for Windows XP/Vista & Windows 64bit XP/Vista. ", it is listed under utilites for the asus rampage extreme motherboard.
 
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