[LAU] Maudio Delta 66 Not recognised on GA-Z68AP-D3

Hello all. I havent had to post anything to such a wide variety of knowledegable people before so forgive me if I have broken any etiquette, but I have a pretty big problem. I recently spent a big wad of cash building a rig based on the GA-Z68AP-D3 motherboard. I built it primarily for audio production on linux using my Maudio Delta 66 Rev B sound card. The card works fine when no graphics card is installed but as soon as I install my NVIDIA 7900GTO card in the PCIex16 slot - alsa fails to see the soundcard. All I get listed in aplay -l is my onboard sound or, if I switch off onboard sound, no cards listed. I have been on the Ubuntu Studio forums (this is the main OS I use for Audio) but have been unable to get a solution. I have tried a few options. I have tried the 3 series kernel from upstream but that didnt help. I have tried installing the proprietary driver for th NVIDIA card which has allowed use of Message Signalled Interrupts but that has not helped. I have updated the BIOS version to the current one from the manufacturers website. I am also on my second motherboard as the first one was returned due to a defect. I have also tested the sound card and graphics card on a friends Asus P8Z68 Deluxe motherboard. The soundcard is detected from a live CD with both my NVIDIA card installed and my friends ATI card. So it appears not to be an issue of defective card. I have also tested the set up with Ubuntu 11.10 and AV Linux. They have the same basis so no difference. I am pretty much out of options at this point. I dont know what to do. Using the system with just the ondboard graphics is not ideal as the Mobo only has HDMI out - which means I would need to buy a new monitor as mine doesnt support HDMI. Below is some useful output ric@Ric:~$ aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC889 Analog [ALC889 Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 1: ALC889 Digital [ALC889 Digital] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 ric@Ric:~$ lspci -vvv 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Device 0100 (rev 09) Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0 Capabilities: <access denied> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sandy Bridge PCI Express Root Port (rev 09) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 4 bytes Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0 I/O behind bridge: 0000c000-0000cfff Memory behind bridge: f8000000-faffffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000d0000000-00000000dfffffff Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- <SERR- <PERR- BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA- VGA+ MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B- PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn- Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: pcieport Kernel modules: shpchp 00:02.0 Display controller: Intel Corporation Device 0112 (rev 09) Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device d000 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 12 Region 0: Memory at fb800000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M] Region 2: Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Region 4: I/O ports at ff00 [size=64] Capabilities: <access denied> 00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Cougar Point HECI Controller #1 (rev 04) Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device 1c3a Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 12 Region 0: Memory at fbfff000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16] Capabilities: <access denied> 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Cougar Point USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 05) (prog-if 20) Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device 5006 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin C routed to IRQ 18 Region 0: Memory at fbffe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Cougar Point High Definition Audio Controller (rev 05) Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device a002 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 4 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 22 Region 0: Memory at fbff8000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cougar Point PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev b5) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 4 bytes Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0 I/O behind bridge: 00002000-00002fff Memory behind bridge: cc000000-cc1fffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000cc200000-00000000cc3fffff Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- <SERR- <PERR- BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B- PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn- Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: pcieport Kernel modules: shpchp 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cougar Point PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev b5) Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 4 bytes Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=0 I/O behind bridge: 0000f000-00000fff Memory behind bridge: fbe00000-fbefffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000fff00000-00000000000fffff Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ <SERR- <PERR- BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B- PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn- Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: pcieport Kernel modules: shpchp 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cougar Point PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev b5) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 4 bytes Bus: primary=00, secondary=04, subordinate=04, sec-latency=0 I/O behind bridge: 0000e000-0000efff Memory behind bridge: fff00000-000fffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000fbd00000-00000000fbdfffff Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- <SERR- <PERR- BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B- PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn- Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: pcieport Kernel modules: shpchp 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev b5) (prog-if 01) Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 4 bytes Bus: primary=00, secondary=05, subordinate=06, sec-latency=0 I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff Memory behind bridge: fff00000-000fffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000fff00000-00000000000fffff Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ <SERR- <PERR- BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B- PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn- Capabilities: <access denied> 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Cougar Point USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 05) (prog-if 20) Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device 5006 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 23 Region 0: Memory at fbffd000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Device 1c44 (rev 05) Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device 5001 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0 Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel modules: iTCO_wdt 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation Cougar Point 4 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 05) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO]) Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device b002 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 19 Region 0: I/O ports at fe00 [size=8] Region 1: I/O ports at fd00 [size=4] Region 2: I/O ports at fc00 [size=8] Region 3: I/O ports at fb00 [size=4] Region 4: I/O ports at fa00 [size=16] Region 5: I/O ports at f900 [size=16] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: ata_piix 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Cougar Point SMBus Controller (rev 05) Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device 5001 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Interrupt: pin C routed to IRQ 10 Region 0: Memory at fbffc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Region 4: I/O ports at 0500 [size=32] Kernel modules: i2c-i801 00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation Cougar Point 2 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 05) (prog-if 85 [Master SecO PriO]) Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device b002 Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 19 Region 0: I/O ports at f700 [size=8] Region 1: I/O ports at f600 [size=4] Region 2: I/O ports at f500 [size=8] Region 3: I/O ports at f400 [size=4] Region 4: I/O ports at f300 [size=16] Region 5: I/O ports at f200 [size=16] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: ata_piix 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G71 [GeForce 7900 GT/GTO] (rev a1) Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Device 042b Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 29 Region 0: Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Region 1: Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Region 3: Memory at f9000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Region 5: I/O ports at cf00 [size=128] [virtual] Expansion ROM at fa000000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: nvidia Kernel modules: nvidia, nvidiafb, nouveau 03:00.0 USB Controller: Device 1b6f:7023 (rev 01) (prog-if 30) Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device 5007 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17 Region 0: Memory at fbef8000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd Kernel modules: xhci 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 06) Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device e000 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 28 Region 0: I/O ports at ee00 [size=256] Region 2: Memory at fbdff000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K] Region 4: Memory at fbdf8000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: r8168 Kernel modules: r8168 05:00.0 PCI bridge: Integrated Technology Express, Inc. Device 8892 (rev 30) (prog-if 01) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 4 bytes Bus: primary=05, secondary=06, subordinate=06, sec-latency=32 I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff Memory behind bridge: fff00000-000fffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000fff00000-00000000000fffff Secondary status: 66MHz+ FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ <SERR- <PERR- BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B- PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr+ DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn- Capabilities: <access denied> 06:00.0 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies Inc. ICE1712 [Envy24] PCI Multi-Channel I/O Controller (rev 02) Subsystem: VIA Technologies Inc. Device d632 Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 19 Region 0: I/O ports at dfc0 [size=32] Region 1: I/O ports at dff0 [size=16] Region 2: I/O ports at dfe0 [size=16] Region 3: I/O ports at df80 [size=64] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel modules: snd-ice1712 ric@Ric:~$ cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3 0: 126 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 31 0 259 18 IO-APIC-edge i8042 4: 2 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge 7: 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge parport0 8: 1 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc0 9: 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi 17: 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi xhci_hcd:usb3 18: 244 0 0 3558 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1 19: 8779 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ata_piix, ata_piix 22: 732 0 779 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi HDA Intel 23: 1206 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb2 29: 651 10818 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge nvidia NMI: 0 0 0 0 Non-maskable interrupts LOC: 21411 21545 9745 7132 Local timer interrupts SPU: 0 0 0 0 Spurious interrupts PMI: 0 0 0 0 Performance monitoring interrupts PND: 0 0 0 0 Performance pending work RES: 290 381 302 269 Rescheduling interrupts CAL: 80 148 153 155 Function call interrupts TLB: 234 380 323 277 TLB shootdowns TRM: 0 0 0 0 Thermal event interrupts THR: 0 0 0 0 Threshold APIC interrupts MCE: 0 0 0 0 Machine check exceptions MCP: 2 2 2 2 Machine check polls ERR: 0 MIS: 0 ric@Ric:~$ cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [PCH ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH HDA Intel PCH at 0xfbff8000 irq 22 ric@Ric:~$ uname -r 2.6.32-38-preempt ric@Ric:~$ cat /proc/asound/version Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21. Again I apologise if this is the wrong place to post this but I am now pretty desperate. Any help will be gratefully received. Many Thanks