when I did the audiodan method and right-clicked on the xonar panel's icon, it was using asio4all for the asio settings. I had to use foobar to stop that association. then it worked fine. when i use task manager I do not see asio4all running as a process when using cplay so I am sure it is working correctly.
the sound is good. it has more soundstage depth than xxhighend, but the sound is less direct and solid. I will do much more listening and see what happens.
I had already done all of the bios optimizations but have been afraid to do minlogin. Will minlogin prevent other programs from running?
Best,
Mark