[linux-audio-user] poll regarding ASUS A8N motherboards

Hi all, Here's my 6-month ongoing saga with these. After buying 2 machines from Thinkmate, I've had nothing but trouble trying to get these to be "clean" as far as the audio output is concerned. I tried A8N-SLI and its newer version A8N32-SLI motherboard (for AMD64). The problem is that even if I disable internal soundcard and run the machine with external soundcard or an internal PCI card (i.e. Delta 1010LT), I get noises when moving mouse as well as a nasty ground-like noise. I tried: *changing the motherboard *disabling internal soundcard *there is no internal speaker so that did not have any bearing *exchanging the power supply *removing the motherboard from the case and running it only with a video card and HDs to see if the case had some issues *tried muting all audio Every time, I still have the noise propagating even through the external FW soundcard. Every time I move the mouse or a window. So, my questions are: Does anyone have A8N series motherboards and if so, do you have any noises? Are the nforce motherboard trash overall or is this one-of-a-kind lemon? Is there a good AMD64 motherboard which can be recommended? Any help is most appreciated! Best wishes, Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A. Composition, Music Technology, CCTAD, CHCI Virginia Tech Dept. of Music - 0240 Blacksburg, VA 24061 (540) 231-1137 (540) 231-5034 (fax) ico(a)vt.edu http://www.music.vt.edu/people/faculty/bukvic/