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

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 suppose 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. I don't know about the sound quality 'haven't heard 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 hanging 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

Thanks

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.

Well, reset CMOS, remove the card and reinstall, reinstall OS and boot into safe mode and then install drivers. Also, try the card in a different motherboard if you have one. If its still no go, RMA.