New AMD Radeon HD 7970 card install, now no ASUS Xonar DS?

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Just got my first AMD card in years (maybe around ~5 years), I installed the latest driver from AMD without issues (13.10) then I installed the driver for the ASUS Xonar DS, the driver installed fine, but the sound card is not being detected as the primary Sound Device for Windows, it appears with a yellow exclamation point when going into Device Manager, under "Device Status" it says:

"The device cannot find enough free resources that it can use (Code 12).

If you want to use this device, you will need to disable one of the other devices in the system"

Which I already did, I disabled the HDMI audio from my HD 7970, and nothing.

What can I do?, I'm running out of ideas.

This was after a clean install of Windows 8.1 btw.

Thanks.
 

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Did the Xonar sound card work OK before installing the new video card? Or did you install both at the same time?

If you installed both at the same time, physically remove the new video card and go back to whatever you had before and then try to install the Xonar sound card and see if it works OK. 8GB of RAM is plenty. I have one system, an i5 3550 CPU and it rarely gets over 4GB of RAM used.

I've also seen some comments about the 8.1 having some sound issues. I don't remember what they are but something else to consider.
 

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That error code is related to the power of the PCI bus controller. Try moving the Xonar sound card to a different PCI slot...use a PCI not PCIe and try it in the last PCI slot on the mobo.

Also, disable your onboard sound the BIOS.
 

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    AMD Phenom II X 4 965 BE
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    Gigabyte GA-MA790X-DS4
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    G-Skill 8 GB PC 8500
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    AMD XFX HD Radeon 6790D
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    Realtek HD onboard
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bassfisher, most new motherboards that have a PCI slot is only a "bridged" slot from the PCIe bus and not true PCI. I wonder how that affects it this particular problem?
 

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    i7 6700K
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    ASUS ROG Maximus VIII Hero
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    16 Gb G Skill TridentZ DDR4 3400
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    Intel (i7 CPU)
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    RealTek Integrated
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    AMD Phenom II X 4 965 BE
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    Gigabyte GA-MA790X-DS4
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    G-Skill 8 GB PC 8500
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    AMD XFX HD Radeon 6790D
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    Realtek HD onboard
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    2l Samsung SyncMaster S20B300
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    Thermaltake OverSeer RX 1 fulltower
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    Razor DeathAdder 3.5
Oh crap...I just noticed your using the latest BETA driver 13.10. The actual latest driver from AMD is 13.9 which was just released a few days ago.

Uninstall that BETA driver and install the correct driver....13.9
 

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  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro
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    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Custom build
    CPU
    AMD Phenom II X 4 965 BE
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte GA-MA790X-DS4
    Memory
    G-Skill 8 GB PC 8500
    Graphics Card(s)
    AMD XFX HD Radeon 6790D
    Sound Card
    Realtek HD onboard
    Monitor(s) Displays
    2l Samsung SyncMaster S20B300
    Screen Resolution
    1600 X 900
    Hard Drives
    Seagate Barracuda 320 GB w/OS
    Seagate Barracuda 1 TB data storage
    PSU
    Ultra X4 750 watt fully modular
    Case
    Thermaltake OverSeer RX 1 fulltower
    Cooling
    Cooler Master Hyper212 120mm
    Keyboard
    Logitech G510
    Mouse
    Razor DeathAdder 3.5
Not enough free resources means Windows cannot allocate the required IRQ, memory, IO, or DMA etc, to that device . Go into device manager and select View resources by type. The Sound card is looking for one of those and can't get it from the motherboard. Moving a card to different slot may fix it as some slots share resources like IRQ's etc.

EDIT: If the motherboard has ports that are not being used like Serial Ports, Parallel ports, or even an IDE interface that doesn't have anything connected to it, disable them to free up resources.
 

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Wow lots of replies, thanks you guys.

Just to give you an update on my situation, I actually fixed it by going back to Windows 8, 8.1 was a definite no go for me, maybe the Xonar drivers aren't ready for 8.1 yet (since the 13.10 BETA driver includes support for 8.1), it's really weird since I was actually running the Xonar DS perfectly fine on the 8.1 Preview build, so maybe something significant changed in the RTM build?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    CPU
    Intel Core i5-2500K
    Motherboard
    ASRock Z77 Extreme4
    Memory
    8GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 RAM
    Graphics Card(s)
    Sapphire Radeon HD 7970 GHz Vapor-X
    Sound Card
    Realtek ALC898
    Monitor(s) Displays
    BenQ XL2411T
    Screen Resolution
    1920 x 1080 @ 144Hz
    Hard Drives
    Plextor M3 Pro 128GB SSD
    WD Blue Caviar
    PSU
    Seasonic G Series 650W
    Case
    Corsair Obsidian 650D
    Cooling
    Corsair H60 and Cooler Master MegaFlow 200mm
    Keyboard
    CM Storm QuickFire Rapid (CHERRY MX Blue Switches)
    Mouse
    Corsair Raptor M45
    Browser
    Google Chrome (latest stable build)
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    None
As the "final" version of 8.1 has not been released to the general public, there can be bugs in beta/pre-release versions. I'd wait until the "final" version is released and then try it.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Win 10
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Home Built
    CPU
    i7 6700K
    Motherboard
    ASUS ROG Maximus VIII Hero
    Memory
    16 Gb G Skill TridentZ DDR4 3400
    Graphics Card(s)
    Intel (i7 CPU)
    Sound Card
    RealTek Integrated
    Monitor(s) Displays
    27" Dell SE2717HR
    Screen Resolution
    1920X1080
    Hard Drives
    500GB Samsung 850 SSD, 3TB for backups
    PSU
    EVGA Supernova 750 G2
    Case
    BeQuiet Silent Base 600
    Cooling
    Deepcool Captain 120EX
    Keyboard
    Microsoft Wireless
    Mouse
    Logitech wireless
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    Cable - 100MB Downlink
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    Edge/Firefox
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    Microsoft
    Other Info
    Sonar Platinum 64 bit recording studio software with MOTU 896Mk3 Hybrid recording interface unit.
As the "final" version of 8.1 has not been released to the general public, there can be bugs in beta/pre-release versions. I'd wait until the "final" version is released and then try it.

Yeah but the "final" version will be the same as the one I downloaded from my DreamSpark account.

Let's hope they release a General Availability Patch for 8.1 like they did with Windows 8.

Is there a way I could send this information directly to Microsoft? like an online bug report for Windows 8.1...
 

My Computer

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  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro
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    PC/Desktop
    CPU
    Intel Core i5-2500K
    Motherboard
    ASRock Z77 Extreme4
    Memory
    8GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 RAM
    Graphics Card(s)
    Sapphire Radeon HD 7970 GHz Vapor-X
    Sound Card
    Realtek ALC898
    Monitor(s) Displays
    BenQ XL2411T
    Screen Resolution
    1920 x 1080 @ 144Hz
    Hard Drives
    Plextor M3 Pro 128GB SSD
    WD Blue Caviar
    PSU
    Seasonic G Series 650W
    Case
    Corsair Obsidian 650D
    Cooling
    Corsair H60 and Cooler Master MegaFlow 200mm
    Keyboard
    CM Storm QuickFire Rapid (CHERRY MX Blue Switches)
    Mouse
    Corsair Raptor M45
    Browser
    Google Chrome (latest stable build)
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    None
In that case, it may not actually be a "Windows 8.1" problem. I would give 8.1 a second try and see what happens. If you have a disc backup/image program, such as Acronis or Macrium, make a full. hard drive backup to another drive or media and then do the 8.1 upgrade. If it is still a problem then falling back to Win 8 is not a major hassle with the disc image.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Win 10
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Home Built
    CPU
    i7 6700K
    Motherboard
    ASUS ROG Maximus VIII Hero
    Memory
    16 Gb G Skill TridentZ DDR4 3400
    Graphics Card(s)
    Intel (i7 CPU)
    Sound Card
    RealTek Integrated
    Monitor(s) Displays
    27" Dell SE2717HR
    Screen Resolution
    1920X1080
    Hard Drives
    500GB Samsung 850 SSD, 3TB for backups
    PSU
    EVGA Supernova 750 G2
    Case
    BeQuiet Silent Base 600
    Cooling
    Deepcool Captain 120EX
    Keyboard
    Microsoft Wireless
    Mouse
    Logitech wireless
    Internet Speed
    Cable - 100MB Downlink
    Browser
    Edge/Firefox
    Antivirus
    Microsoft
    Other Info
    Sonar Platinum 64 bit recording studio software with MOTU 896Mk3 Hybrid recording interface unit.
In that case, it may not actually be a "Windows 8.1" problem. I would give 8.1 a second try and see what happens. If you have a disc backup/image program, such as Acronis or Macrium, make a full. hard drive backup to another drive or media and then do the 8.1 upgrade. If it is still a problem then falling back to Win 8 is not a major hassle with the disc image.
I did re install Windows 8.1 multiple times, it's definitely a 8.1 RTM issue, once I went back to 8, everything worked perfectly :)
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    CPU
    Intel Core i5-2500K
    Motherboard
    ASRock Z77 Extreme4
    Memory
    8GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 RAM
    Graphics Card(s)
    Sapphire Radeon HD 7970 GHz Vapor-X
    Sound Card
    Realtek ALC898
    Monitor(s) Displays
    BenQ XL2411T
    Screen Resolution
    1920 x 1080 @ 144Hz
    Hard Drives
    Plextor M3 Pro 128GB SSD
    WD Blue Caviar
    PSU
    Seasonic G Series 650W
    Case
    Corsair Obsidian 650D
    Cooling
    Corsair H60 and Cooler Master MegaFlow 200mm
    Keyboard
    CM Storm QuickFire Rapid (CHERRY MX Blue Switches)
    Mouse
    Corsair Raptor M45
    Browser
    Google Chrome (latest stable build)
    Antivirus
    None
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