I worked for a sound card company (not that one) back in the days when computers didn't have the HW built-in, and you were expected to change settings by moving physical jumpers on the cards. It was a dark time to be doing phone support.
At that time I had a small computer store. I was assembling the machines after the business hours. Those crappy non-SB sound cards ALWAYS needed a config. Manuals? HaHa. Internet to find out? HaHa. Trial and error. But, my supplier always found some worse ones to sell me, that went on until I decided, No more. The clients will have SB or they can buy it and install it themselves.
Also, no more MSI motherboards, no more AMD processors, no ATI video cards and no Seagate drives. None of those worked OOB, you always HAD to go jumper fighting, that with the Seagate disks was always a risk, they tended to burn out just by looking at them wrong. There was an edition of them, 100gb capacity, that my supplier received 50% of extra drives for each order, to get over the returns, they burned so fast that many of them were never even formatted ONCE. The MSI MB's had a tendency to kill memory SIMMS if you let it heat above a certain point. That point was reached with the PC idling. There was a problem where it wouldn't go into hibernation, instead it would max out the processor. With AMD processors, it was a matter of what would die sooner, the processor, the board or the memory. Sometimes all three.
It wasn't a happy time. The profit margins were below 5%. The hours were insane, for over 2 years I never managed to have time for the wife and kids, had to close that money pit.
Peace