Likely because once it starts the install it will look for generic drivers and "activate" the card, if that makes sense. My external sound card blinks like its disconnected when rebooting but once it reaches windows it lights up just fine.
Have you tried installing the card after the windows install? There might not be anything wrong with it.
There could be IRQ conflicts (although these are uncommon now i believe), and you would need to disable the onboard card in BIOS. If windows can't boot with the Asus card in, i would disable the onboard card in bios and try again.. if it can't boot then i suppose it might be busted but you should probably check it in another computer just in case.
EDIT:
So, what's the error message? The first thing i could think of was that it was trying to cache on C: before moving the file to D:, but if you can't place any file on D:, it sounds like it could be something related to permissions?
Right-click on the D: drive, check the security tab.
You should have "Authenticated Users" "SYSTEM" "Administrators (yourcomputernamehere\Administrators)" "Users (yourcomputernamehere\Users)", and maybe others. You can then edit the different users to give them permission to save files. Other than that i don't really know what it could be since you haven't provided me with the error message.
EDIT 2 (Taking posts from last page that haven't been answered yet):
Check out Multimon and see if that program can help you? Maybe you could set something up with Multimon and AutoHotKey. Like a macro that switches resolution automatically so it looks fine.
Does this happen when you touch it as well? I'm surprised that your cat isn't getting shocked by this. I had something similar happen to me when i was living in the basement at my fathers house a couple of years back. My whole case and Monitor and everything that was conductive would give me a hell of a shock. Turns out it was faulty wiring down there.
Anyway, you shouldn't use the front ports anyhow. They are usually low quality and prone to failure. Most of my front audio ports on different cases just burnt out for no reason at all, so i stopped connecting them. Front ports are fine for when you need to charge your phone or whatever but always use the back ones for everything else.
As somebody else said though, this could potentially blow out your motherboard/psu and take everything with it so i'm not sure what your solution would be. It might be faulty wiring in the building that's causing it, your cat might be a super villain or maybe the motherboard are getting shorted out because whoever built it forgot to use washers or standoffs when screwing in the motherboard in the case.
What you could do though.. hm, you could disconnect the front connectors entirely and see if your cat causes any issues. If not, might as well leave it out.
I have no idea why it isn't installing but you could check the event viewer? I would also call up Microsoft and let them check it out.
There's no point in using anything other than MSE. MSE + Common sense. Paying for AV these days are not necessary.
Also, you don't need a software firewall.. it does fuck all. Well, it drains resources.
Tried it, no luck
Also, thank you very much for helping!
I have no idea then.. That driver is suppose to be perfectly stable. Did you ever try without any driver? I can't recall.
Another thing would be to do a fresh install, maybe windows 7 if you have that available, just for the hell of it. Just install the driver i posted earlier (314.22), MSE and web browser and try it out again. If its still happening there's gotta be something hardware related.
