I recently built my first computer, with the Asus A7N8X Deluxe motherboard, and I'm having problems with the sound drivers. They install ok, say they're working, no conflicts, and sound fine, but when I try to shut my computer down, it reboots instead. I uninstall the drivers, it shuts down fine. This happens with the drivers that came on the installation cd, and the newest versions from nVidia and ASUS...and I've even returned the first board, thinking it was just messed up somehow.

Thanks so much for any help anyone can give me...the only two computer people I know are a couple guys who say 'ha ha, girls can't build computers' when I ask for help. :(

have they seen your handy work?....need to tell them a thing or two...

ok...umm..I've had this problem before..I'm trying to remember why... umm...what kind of sound card do you have?...is it onboard?..

When you install the drivers you are doing all nforce drivers at once? If you are using the cd or downloaded versions it will unzip them to one directory and then call all the files during install. What I did(have the same board) I removed the sound drivers and installed everything else. I don't use the on-board sound, but I think you will have to try this so you can determine if it is your sound or if it is another driver. What happens is it will install mem drivers, agp drivers, and something else. If the problem occurs then uninstall everything and then install one driver at a time. I have not heard of anyone having that problem though, you might need to get that board replaced
Let me know if this helped.

BTW tell those guy friends of yours you have one of the best systems and they are just jealous or something.

I just read you already returned one board, so I guess unless you have really bad luck it must be a driver problem. What are your specs on the system you built?

try this, it's a start. maybe just one file got corrupted , who knows. go to device manager,dbl click "sound video and game controllers". there are two listings for nvidia. dbl click the first, click "driver" at the top, then "update driver. then select "install from a list or specific location". next , select "don't search, i will choose the driver to install". click "next" and highlight the file in the list. click "next" and let it update the drivers. if asked, put in the installation disc. restart. then try shutting down. if all else fails, you can always try an older driver.

Ok, I tried letting windows update both the main audio drivers by itself, but that didn't work...and I can only find one version of the drivers on the nVidia and Asus sites...does anyone know where I can find older drivers for this?

I've been just installing the sound drivers by themselves, not all the other stuff that's on the cd, so I'm pretty sure it's the sound ones that are messing things up.

Goldenknob: Yeah, it's onboard sound.

Breakthrough! I tried a combo of suggestions and got it to work...

I downloaded the drivers from the asus site that had been posted in January (even tho they had the same revision # as the new ones) unzipped em, yanked out everything but the audio drivers folder, installed that, and now my computer actually shuts down! I'll have to go through now and figure out what the bad drivers are.

Thanks so much for the help guys, I was going crazy trying to figure this out!