Soundcard/chip problem

Help me.
I have an Asus m2n-e sli mobo on a 64bit Vista O/S with onboard soundchip (crap I know) that has done me well so far.
Today I was browsing youtube and when I closed the browser there was a loud hiss which I thought was the video I had just closed. Now I can only hear hiss unless I turn sound down really low then I can hear sounds but they have a weird metallic sound and bad distortion to em.
I ran a diagnostic on the prob which told me that driver was obsolete which is strange as it has been working fine up until today. I have tried updating drivers and even tried rolling them back but still have problem with it. I am guessing that I have cooked my chip as they do run hot so I am told when playing intensive games so am gonna need a new soundcard, any suggestions on either repairing the prob or on which card to buy as replacement.

I am stumped with this one so any help would be appreciated

Did you check all your soundssettings? What if you turned all the settings back to default?

Yeah mate i tried that but nothing got it back to normal.
Like i said i just closed browser and it went all hissy, didnt adjust anything to make it go wrong

Im blaming leafs for it anyway

EV3RY wrote:

Yeah mate i tried that but nothing got it back to normal.
Like i said i just closed browser and it went all hissy, didnt adjust anything to make it go wrong

Im blaming leafs for it anyway

Yeah, leafs still has some magical powers left! Like Screwing up computers...motherboards and stuff like that.

Anyways, then its probably something with your motherboard. I'd buy a simple creative soundcard, disable your intergrated one and use the creative one. Maybe its a cable or something though....

Creative is what I am looking to get once the holidays are over and I think its the integrated chip gone kaput too. Thx for your input anyways matey

I have a Sound Blaster X-Fi Audio [A000] by Creative Labs. It has worked really well for me so far.

Probably the sound chip I would guess. Over the years I have found sound issues to be rather frustrating. Have you completely uninstalled and reinstalled the driver? I see you updated and back dated. Also, have you tried another set of speakers? If you have another.... or a headset..... Just to make sure it's not the speakers.

Problem seems to be fixed now. I was advised to go into BIOS and disable Legacy driver support for the onboard chip there and after a reboot I now have sound back. Its a mystery that one minute it was working and then it just packs up with no prompting by adjusting settings and the like. I am still looking to replace the chip with a card so this problem will not occur again. Thx for the input from you guys anyway.

Triassic wrote:

Yeah, leafs still has some magical powers left! Like Screwing up computers...motherboards and stuff like that.

If it was just computers he's screwing he wouldn't have so much troubles with the local police department...

yah i was gonna tell ya the same thing about the legacy support apparently it gets a little glicthy with vista i had same problem with my onboard sound and i had the same board you got but i changed over to a sound blaster xfi gamere card and much happyer they arent to bad now about 80 dollars here

Major Zeman wrote:

Triassic wrote:

Yeah, leafs still has some magical powers left! Like Screwing up computers...motherboards and stuff like that.

If it was just computers he's screwing he wouldn't have so much troubles with the local police department...

SOMEONE CALL 911!