Xonar D1 broken?

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I just got my new Xonar D1 sound card today to go with my Roccat Kaves. So I stuck it in a PCI slot and booted my pc. Installed the drivers and everything seemed fine. So I ran the speaker test and noticed some speaker weren't in the right places. So I ran it again and the sounds came from different speaker. So I ran it a few more times and the sounds were just random every time. Sometimes some of the speakers wouldn't even make a sound.

Tried a few different drivers. Same result. Tried a different PCI slot. Same result. Tried disabling my onboard sound. Same result. Plugged in my stereo speakers and sometimes the left would come through the right speaker and vice versa. So obviously is has nothing to do with my Kaves.

Another thing I noticed is I can only put my sample rate on 44.1KHz and 48KHz. 96KHz and 192KHz make this weird slowed down, distorted sound. And since the default setting was on 96KHz (and a bunch of people online are using 96 and 192 for their Kaves) I have come to the conclusion that this isn't normal.

Bought it from Take2 so it's gonna be a mission to return it, but what I want to know is does this sound like a broken sound card or something else? My mobo is a Intel DP67BG.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
 
So I put the sound card in another computer running Windows XP and it works... -_-

Anyone know what the problem could be? I've got Windows 7 64-bit. Could this be the issue?
 
Sounds like driver issues. I am running a D1 on Win 7 64bit fine, with 5.1 speakers.

Use UniXonar Asus drivers - http://brainbit.wordpress.com/category/uni-xonar/

Also, what speaker test are you running, the Xonar Audio Center one, or the Windows one? Windows usually gives exclusive control to 3rd-party apps to setup speaker config, so if you're using Windows speaker wizard it will likely create issues, and perhaps also if 3rd party app isn't given exclusive control.
 
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I'm already using the UniXonar Asus drivers. The effect is the same in both Xonar Audio Center and Windows' speaker test. There has to be some sort of software issue. I've tried basically everything, so last resort, I'm formatting now. Hopefully it will work after the format. If not, I'm out of ideas.
 
Good luck. Can't think of anything either if it doesn't work on clean Windows install.
 
Formatted, installed service pack 1, installed driver. Same result. I'm at a loss...
 
I'm using a Xonar DX and whenever I go over 48KHz sometimes the scratching sounds show up.
I don't need more than 48KHz, as I have a 5.1 speaker setup.
Somehow I read the frequencies you are looking for are only available on higer end cards like the Essence ST and above.
 
The thing is it worked on the other computer I tested it on running Windows XP. I could use all the sample rates without any issues. And even though the sound isn't distorted on 44.1 and 48, the channel mismatches still occur. So it's no use.

EDIT: Did some more searching on the internet and apparently the PCI slots on the Intel DP67BG are ****. A lot of people are having issues with them, especially sound cards. Is there some sort of PCI-e to PCI adapter that I can buy? Or something else to get a PCI port that has nothing to do with the mobos PCI ports? Or maybe I can ask Take2 if I can swap the Xonar D1 for a Xonar DX XD that is a bit more expensive, but uses PCI-e.
 
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Hmmm... Thanks for the info. Think I'll try to get the PCI-e one. I'll figure something out. Maybe sell it to a friend or something. Stupid Intel -_-
 
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