Maximus VIII Gene Audio Issue

Whats up gents?

So i am having an issue with the audio on my mobo. if i let my pc set for a long time or i put it in sleep without playing audio, when i get back to it and turn it back on, the audio is incredibly distorted and sounds horrible! the only fix is to either restart the PC, restart realtek driver, or change the sampling rate. all of those fix it instantly.

now i do have an issue with my front panel io audio, basically i found out that it was getting shorted out on the case and causing bad audio in the front. i since then "fixed" it and its working except the mic. so maybe it could be that or something? idk

i think it may be driver issue relating to the amp.

reinstalling drivers had no effect.

The only drivers there are my realtek drivers and Nvidia drivers. Ive tried multiple versions of realtek to no avail.

i think i have it figured out. other than needing a new front panel IO, i think it was the sonic studio driver that was installing. so far i uninstalled everything, cleaned out folders manually, and cleaned the reg, installed the latest realtek driver off their site without sonic and it seems to be fixed... for now...

whats your opinion on the sound output? i feel like the lows are extremely limited.

Im using Sennheiser PC350 Closed back headphones. on my last mobo which was a gigabyte with creative sound blaster audio, everything sounded AMAZING! the lows hit hard, audio was powerful, etc. feels weak on this setup.

yea, idk. i feel like its just very limited in its low end of the frequencies. like there is a crossover set way too high

yea, i gotcha... so i just put in a RMA for the part that need to be replace, corsair accepted it and should be sending it out!