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Sound card issue
melatonin
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Recently picked up a new sound card to avoid having to use my (all of a sudden, now-laggy) onboard device (on an Asus P5B deluxe, a motherboard which has been the bane of my life for quote some time now). This card in particular - http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/12699671/SPEEDLINK-SL-8871-SRD-A-Stage-7-1-PCI-Sound-Card/Product.html
Installed, turned on PC, prompted to download the latest drivers for Windows 7 32-bit from the company's website, did so. The computer picks up the drivers fine, installs, recognises the card:
But... I get no sound. I know in that picture the onboard sound is set as my default device, but I've tried all four in various combinations and I can't get a peep out of the actual sound card. Not from the SPDIF output using an optical cable, not from the regular headphone/speaker socket... nothing. When I'm playing something, it detects the noise levels and displays them accordingly, but still - no sound. No conflicts reported in Device Manager (where again, the card is picked up fine, and has up-to-date drivers), tried swapping PCI slots to no avail, tried disabling onboard HD sound entirely... nothing.
Any ideas? Much appreciated.
Installed, turned on PC, prompted to download the latest drivers for Windows 7 32-bit from the company's website, did so. The computer picks up the drivers fine, installs, recognises the card:
But... I get no sound. I know in that picture the onboard sound is set as my default device, but I've tried all four in various combinations and I can't get a peep out of the actual sound card. Not from the SPDIF output using an optical cable, not from the regular headphone/speaker socket... nothing. When I'm playing something, it detects the noise levels and displays them accordingly, but still - no sound. No conflicts reported in Device Manager (where again, the card is picked up fine, and has up-to-date drivers), tried swapping PCI slots to no avail, tried disabling onboard HD sound entirely... nothing.
Any ideas? Much appreciated.
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I have a 5.1 receiver which takes the sound (via optical cable) from the HD onboard mobo device perfectly fine. I take the end of that cable, remove it from the mobo optical port, put it in the SPDIF Out port on the sound card, change the default device... nothing. I plug some speakers, or some headphones into the standard jack, change the default device... nothing. Plug the optical cable back into HD onboard mobo port, change device back... sound comes straight back.
Bugging the shit out of me, it is.
The setting should be in the Playback device properties Advanced Tab under Default Format.