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Looking for ASUS H6 expansion card, still none in sight

post #1 of 21
11/7/11 at 9:13pm
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Been looking for the H6 expansion card and the only places I can find them are on eBay and here.

 

Did Asus drop support for the H6 card? Is it still worth getting for ST users?

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post #2 of 21
12/4/11 at 1:13pm
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Anyone?

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post #3 of 21
12/4/11 at 6:01pm

I think they did, because it makes no sense to drop its support, they did the same thing with the orginal HDAV 1.3 non Deluxe and the Deluxe model too.

I saw one on ebay a couple of months ago, or froogle search.  They prolly did it to get people to buy the Xense.

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post #4 of 21
12/4/11 at 6:42pm
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Does that mean they Asus will not update Essence ST/STX drivers as well?

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post #5 of 21
12/4/11 at 6:59pm

I still think they will update the drivers , just very slow like they been doing. Tho there's Always uni xonar drivers f they decided to stop.

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post #6 of 21
12/4/11 at 9:00pm
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I will be receiving my Essence ST on Tuesday per Newegg tracking. Would you recommend I use the Uni Xonar drivers instead of Asus's?

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post #7 of 21
12/4/11 at 9:03pm

Up to you, But I know I would since the Uni xonar drivers are newer then the ones on asus site. Which I usually did with my STX that I had.

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post #8 of 21
12/4/11 at 9:07pm
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I ask that because I'm running Win 7 x64 and the author said there will be issues installing drivers on a x64 machine.

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post #9 of 21
12/4/11 at 9:15pm

I didnt have any issues of installing them when I had my Xonar STX in windows 7 64bit,But then again I been using the uni Xonar Beta drivers and updating whenever he release a new beta ver.

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post #10 of 21
12/4/11 at 9:18pm
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You never had to install the drivers using this method?

 

Copied from Uni Driver homepage:

 

 

Quote:

Release notes 1.50 Experimental build 1

For Windows XP, Vista (x86), Win7 (x86) these drivers will work fine. The only problem is with x64 versions of Vista and Win 7, because this driver doesn’t have a valid signature file.

Only if you had/have problems installing due to driver signature errors: I have implemented  a workaround with a test certificate and  signature file. For this to work you need to enable Test Mode in Windows, this can be enabled by running the 1. enable testmode.bat as administrator (Right Click-> Run as Administrator) and restarting your computer. If the test mode is enabled a watermark with this will apear in the bottom right corner of your desktop. The .bat file is located in the driver archive. After this, just run the UNi installer (might need to run this as administrator too). Hopefully this method will work.

 

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post #11 of 21
12/4/11 at 9:52pm

Nope never had to with the betas.

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post #12 of 21
12/4/11 at 11:38pm
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Originally Posted by OpTicaL View Post

I ask that because I'm running Win 7 x64 and the author said there will be issues installing drivers on a x64 machine.



I'm running Win 7 x64 bit, too. Never had any issues installing the drivers. They run perfect.

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post #13 of 21
12/5/11 at 9:46pm
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Okay upon further reading, 'testmode' only applies to the latest build, 1.50 and is only required if having issues with installation. The previous version, 1.41, installs fine under x64.

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post #14 of 21
12/5/11 at 9:57pm

I usually just install the Unified drivers after install the regular Asus drivers, maybe you should just use version 1.41.

OpTicaL, why did you get the ST version over getting the STX?

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post #15 of 21
12/6/11 at 12:03am
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I chose the ST specifically for the 7.1 H6 expansion card, but that card seems harder and harder to find these days.

 

Although I have absolutely no comprehension of the technical aspects of either card I read through many threads here that state the ST is slightly better than the STX.

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