Damaged PCI-E connector on Xonar STX

[Spandy87]

It looks like a tiny part of the gold pci-e connection (the part that goes into the slot) has flaked off.

Windows reads that there is an Asus Xonar sound card plugged in, and the drivers install fine, just no sound.

I literally JUST got the card two days ago, and it was working before... now it's not. Is this covered by the Asus warranty?

thanks!

 

[jeremyshaw]

EDIT: is it like the newegg pics here?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Image... x1 Interface 124 dB SNR / Headphone AMP Card

 

[Spandy87]

Oh, yes it's exactly like that

 

[jeremyshaw]

then it's normal. I have a few GPUs with half length traces, and I thought it was wierd.

 

[Spandy87]

so then theres no reason for it to not be working, weird.

 

[plugwash]

IIRC the short traces are there so a hotplugging capable host (afaict cards are required to support hotplugging but hosts aren't) can detect when the user starts to remove/completes insertion of the card.