Speakers and WMC work, but can't play any other sound files

Hello and welcome excessive now do the speakers work on another machine or sound device?

Are they connected by USB or the jack I can't quite make out how from your description and also the Creative speakers did they come with any form of software if so what is the model number of them.


Now I am assuming you have updated the driver for audio but from what source - I am not a fan of the Windows feature and always use the board or the actual manufactures site for drivers such as that.
The one you want is this one for that update http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M2N68VM/HelpDesk_Download/

I am not sure of what the NVidia Sound Device you mention is though? as I can find no mention of it on the Asus site.

I think you should also look at what version of the BIOS you have installed too and I am assuming you know the risks of updating the BIOS so be careful.

I am not sure why the manual referred to NVidia for a sound device as thedriver as you see for that board is in that link along with all the otherupdate driver stuff you would need for that board.
To get exact details try this

Using HW Info general components

DownloadHW Info and pick the right bit version - HWiNFO, HWiNFO32/64 - Download - (copy andpaste this site into the search bar) If you do not need the running informationin the smaller right hand panel close it. In the left hand window click on the+ for the individual device groupings and they will open out to the variouscomponents.

Goon opening out further until you get to the device itself. click on it and itwill highlight. In the right hand window there will be a very detaileddescription of that device as in brand, speeds model number etc etc These arevery detailed and are just what is needed for searching for drivers etc.

Seemy pic for an example - in this I have opened out one my components and then highlighted one of the one you need andyou can see the detail.


The AMD card you have you only need the site for the driver it andyes inserting a card "bypasses" the inbuilt graphics so to speak.

The driver for it I am assuming you have but if not it is this one http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Windows+7+-+64

Just wondering if you need to update the firmware for the SSD don't discardit and that the install did not go right. The Transcend site I cannot find for the firmware and there was similar post a while ago that suggested quite rightly the size of the drive unless purely for the OS is a bit on the small side.

Ok mate I am offline for a bit now so will look later.:)

Well if it were me I would uninstall the previous Catalyst Control Centre(CCC) and reinstall the new version.

To do that I would download the new CCC first and save it to anywhereyou like I have all my download stuff in an icon the desktop called Downloadsbut you can use a new folder on the desktop but somewhere it is easilyaccessed. Then uninstall the old stuff and the rest go from there.

You could also save the older version too it really makes no difference asit stays just as a saved software until you need it. You can find those here http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop/previous?os=Windows%207%20-%2064 theone thing I would be very wary of is using anything beta.

I have installed CCC without uninstalling the old first before and it has hadconflicts.

Now looking at the board specs the chipset is the NVidia feature youare referring to http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M2N68VM/specifications/ why I don't know because Googling that listed NVidia stuff just refers to graphics stuff and chipset features usually deal with the north and south bridge functions ie how the SATA drives are controlled and routed so I am at a loss with that one.

Now I see this is an older board too because of he DDR2 RAM and I was ratherhoping it was newer board that had dual BIOS so if you brick one there is abackup. So it has to be done very carefully. Having said that it does state in the specs that the board has crash free BIOS 3 and an Asus EZ flash that is fairly straight forward but I am not sure of the crash free stuff and will have to do some more searching to see what it is all about.

The SSD I wasn't criticising and guessed that is what you are using - sorryif I sounded a little overly clever - which I am not really just do this for ahobby.

I do the same thing with my other machines using spinners as data storagebut I stick to 500GB drives as I have had some fairly disastrousexperiences with the large drives. I tend to think the larger the drive andcrash the more data is possibly lost. But that is me and OCD
Just remember the board only supports 3Gbs SATA the SSD will be able to handle that but obviously not so fast as the 6Gbs able boards.

What I am rather confused by is the lack of support or info on that SSD as Iwould really think it could do with the firmware being updated. The BIOS againdepending on what version you have might be worth looking at but again it issomething one has to use great caution with as above.

Now I don't want to influence what you have for graphics but I went over toNVidia for graphics as the original cards were CCC controlled and I had so manyproblems. I find the NVidia stuff so much easier to use but it depends on yourpreference and budget and what sort of performance you want.

I run GTX 650's in my desktops and find they are more than enough for what Iwant.