Internal sound card issue

[looper]

My Asus Xonar Essence ST sound card, about once every 6 weeks or so, just disappears from Device Manager.

I typically uninstall/re-install the software and card and within 2-3 tries it works again for a while. This last time I got impatient and just pulled it out of my case and am now using the onboard sound that came w/ my motherboard. What the heck?

I'm tempted to just get an inexpensive Creative sound card. The computer is used a great deal for PC gaming.

 

[postmortemIA]

maybe bad PCI connector? bad interface chip? I've seen many PCI devices sharing the same fate. sometimes taking in out of the mobo, rebooting once, inserting it again - works.

Cheap Creative card with nice headphones mode would be worth it. I like my old X-fi as it downmixes the 5.1 to stereo and sound quality is awesome.

 

[vincedea]

Dude I have the same issue as you except it's with my restive zxr. When I first boot up it'll say no sound device found. I then would have to shut down and wait a few minutes to boot again and the card is back. I never found a fix for it.

 

[corkyg]

Sound cards are not peripherals. Moved to General Hardware.