SB Titanium X-FI HD (No Sound) PLEASE HELP

[SEIZETHEDAY4EVA]

Yesterday i replaced my SB X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Serier 7.1 Sound Card which was working perfectly fine with the new Titanium HD, i did a fresh install of Windows 7 and deleted my partitions so started completely from scratch. Installed the drivers that it came with, had no sound at all. Updated the sound driver to the latest one 3.00.1004 and still no sound. I'm using the optical cable for 5.1 as i have no choice so i thought as i wasn't using opitical before maybe it doesn't work but then when i uninstalled the creative drivers windows installed it's own driver and i all of a sudden had sound, but it must have been using the onboard sound on my motherboard. Then i tried installing the latest Creative driver first instead of the one from the CD provided and still no sound. I spent 6 hours trying everything i could think of, on Creative's website it mentioned trying to change the frequenzy sampling rate to match your speakers, well i went through all of them in the settings and still no sound. I've even taken the sound card out and reinstalled it again, still no sound. I'm really lost and could appreciate some help. Do you think the sound card could be faulty?

In device Manager the sound card shows up so it is being reconised, also on the opitical at the back of the card it glows a red colour.

The specs of my machine are:

Windows 7 Home Premium (orignal not a copy!)

Gigabyte P67A-UD7

Intel i7 2600k 3.40Ghz

Corsair Vengeance 8GB DDR PC3-15000C9 1866Mhz

ATI Radeon 6970

Also i've updated Windows 7, but to be honest i had no sound before the updates and no sound after installing all the updates and uninstalling the drivers and then reinstalling them. I feel like i'm a beaten man and it's so annoying, any advice PLEASE?

 

[Dahak]

if you click on the speaker icon on the taskbar, check to see if its not defaulting to the hdmi out on the video card. I have see that happen if it detects the hdmi audio path before the sound card drivers are installed

 

[SEIZETHEDAY4EVA]

Please ignore my post, sooooo embarrassing, user error (hands up). Nothing wrong with the hardware or drivers.

As i didn't have to do this before when i was using my Fatal1ty card without using optical i honestly didn't give it a second thought but i had to go to the encoder settings from the creative audio software and change to Dolby or DTS, it was switched off so i chose Dolby at first and then my Logictech Z5500 5.1 LCD Panel changed to the Dolby sign and then there was light (sound). I felt very stupid indeed.