Having problem with MoBo onboard sound card.

I've an ASUS A8v Deluxe 939 MoBo. It has a lot of bells and whistles on the board which have thus far made my life a breeze except for one area.

I went with an M-Audio PCI sound card and I'm less than happy with it. The MoBo has built in 7.1 but everytime I try and activate it I'm stymied. The MoBo support disk was supposed to come with a Realtek Audio/mixing application and driver. It didn't. All the downloads from the Asus Website have proven to be unsuccessul. I get icons but no .exe program.

Calls to tech support have been unsuccsessful. So I'm wondering if anyone else can help me with this. Do I need to uninstall the M-Audio card and drivers completely and work it from the bios forward? Any idea where else I can get a copy of the Realtek audio program?

Any help would be appreciated, I'll also be posting this on the Mobo & Chipset Board.

Thanks in advance.

Da Worfster

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