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ibrunton

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-05-05

Posts: 270

Sound cuts out randomly, can't be restored: faulty hardware?

Recently my motherboard's onboard audio output got fried by a power surge, so I installed an Asus Xonar DX sound card.  Following the instructions in the wiki and on the ALSA site, I got modules loaded and everything worked fine---for a few minutes.  Then the audio randomly cut out.  Rebooting did not fix it.  I mucked about with a bunch of ALSA settings and eventually managed to get sound back---until I suspended the computer.  Some more mucking about and rebooting, and I got sound back---for a few minutes, then it cut out again.  I've had the same results with PulseAudio and OSS, in both Arch and Slackware.  I've tried everything I can find on the net.  Is this likely to be a defective sound card?

If there's any system output that would help, let me know, but I've been through the wiki and google a few dozen times now looking for some config setting, but nothing changes the results.

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brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,742

Re: Sound cuts out randomly, can't be restored: faulty hardware?

Is this likely to be a defective sound card?

I'd say it's more likely that your motherboard is unreliable, after that power surge.

"Mucking about" is hardly a scientific explanation.