Hi Gerry,
Thanks for your time and effort. To follow is the fix and trust this helps others.
I very much enjoy my new Auzentech HomeTheatre HD sound card and Its only going to
get better, isn't that great!
Cheers Les
Hi all,
Firstly I would like to thank you all for your immediate support. I very much appreciate your help.
The problem I had, was isolated to the MSI K9N Platinum mother board logic, not the X-FI HD card.
The K9N motherboard requires a sound card to be on-board or in the PCI standard slot to boot out of bios to the operating system.
If you remove both, the machine will not boot.(PCI-E is not included in this boot sequence)
The fix is to remove the PCI standard sound card.Turn on the on-board sound in bios. Install the new Auzentech HomeTheatre X-FI-HD card into the PCI-E slot and the machine will boot.
Then turn off the on-board sound in windows.
Problem fixed. Ya who!
Trust this helps all.
Thanks again
Les