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Originally Posted by General Maximus
I didn't use asterisks either, it was the swear filter doing its job. Next time I will say I am urinated off 
As an update though, just spoke to tech support and my poor pc is bring collected Monday and returned for repair. I don't know whether it will need a new psu or what. Pretty pants if it does because that means I can never connect more than 3 hdds rven though the psu has connectors for 6+ and the mb has 6 sata ports. |
Wait, was the PC ready-built for you or did you assemble the components yourself?
Personally I'd have returned the HDDs as they are the actual problem, other brands of HDDs would most likely have worked.
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Originally Posted by General Maximus
tell me about it. I have been jinxed from the start. My old pc had a soundblaster x-fi fatality soundcard in it which is awesome but it is pci and my new pc doesnt have any pci slots, only pci-e so rather than caughing up another £100+ for a decent soundcard (the pc cost me enough) I thought I would see what the onbaord sound was like. The onbard sound is pants and even though it is supposed to be 7.1 and I have got 7.1 speakers, the side speakers and subwoofer didnt work so I ordered a new soundcard from Amazon and they sent me the wrong one so I had to send that back.
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Most onboard sound cards are pants. That said a few motherboards do have specifically over-engineered audio components and these are usually boasted about in the product marketing materials.
As for PCI sound cards - I have the same issue, and spend most of my time always upgrading to new motherboards ensuring there was at least 1 PCI slot. Now I've learnt you can get a PCI-express to classic PCI riser for not too much money I'm far less concerned.
Also for 7.1, bear in mind there are a number of incompatible standards for 7.1 speaker connections. Though the
majority use the same type, not all do.