I'm having issues with audio in Windows 7 (32 bit) Ultimate edition. Motherboard: ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe. I have disabled the on board audio (in BIOS)...installed a PCI audio card... I will get audio for about 10 seconds of CONTINUOUS PLAY on YouTube or any other audio source, then the sound just simply goes away. PCI card is a StarTech PCISOUND4CH... Would love to get this one figured out...

Thanks for reading...

-TroyCurious as to why you disabled the intergrated sound and are using a low quality Startech audio card? Was this audio issue present prior to installing this StarTech card and thats why you installed the StarTech brand audio card?

LOOKING here, I see they dont have any Win 7 32-bit drivers. http://support.asus.com/Download.aspx?SLanguage=en&m=A8N-SLI%20Deluxe&p=1&os=17 Have you tried to install Windows XP Pro 32-bit drivers for the integrated audio with the StarTech audio card removed. You will need to right-click on the Windows XP Audio Driver and perform a runas administrator, and might also need to select to run the Audio Driver installer under Windows XP SP3 compatability mode.

I ran into issues with an older ( Made in 2002 ) motherboard that had an Intel 845 chipset and Intel only made drivers supporting up to Windows XP for it, with no future support for Vista, 7, or 8. I was able to do this trick with my Windows 7 32-bit installation on that Pentium 4 to install the correct video driver, a Windows XP Driver forced to Windows 7 32-bit with no PROBLEMS and got my 1024x768 resolution I needed vs the default generic driver Windows 7 wanted to use at 640x480 with 256 colors. However my daughters computer using a Foxconn motherboard running a Pentium D 3Ghz did not like Foxconn XP Audio drivers under Win 7 32-bit and so I ended up using a StarTech USB Audio adapter and Windows 7 32-bit detected that perfectly fine and both the sound and microphone ports work flawlessly. The USB audio adapter was like $12 at newegg. I have since then bought another because I found out that my motherboard a Biostar MCP6PB M2+ with realtek integrated audio works for audio out but microphone does not work under Windows 7. I plugged my headset into this USB StarTech adio adapter and I now have sound and microphone for chatting with others online as a cheap quick fix. Sadly this motherboard is only 4 years old from 2009 and Biostar does not have Windows 7 drivers for it, and Realtek's website isn't much help as well.Send the card back for replacement.