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Sound just died

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Traxan

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My sound has suddenly disappeared. According to Windows 7, the card is there. the Device Manager see the SB X-Fi card and reports it is working properly.

But if I try to reinstall the drivers, I get an error saying setup cannot detect a device in my system. The Sound icon in the systray says SPDIF Out, which is not the output for the X-Fi.

I removed the card and reseated it. No dice. i can't install drivers, because the card is not detected. Did this card just die on me?
 
Not yet. But it got stranger. Restarting the system would shoot memory use to 100% and then down to the 90s for several minutes and this is a 16GB system. but I'd open the performance monitor and no app was consuming that kind of memory. Eventually it would drop down to normal utilization, about 16%.

I switched on the motherboard audio and switched the speakers to that. No memory problems and the sound works perfectly. So I'm wondering if the card did indeed die -- it's about 3 years old, and was farking up memory on start up.

The sound qualify of the onboard audio card is nowhere near as good, btw.
 
Does sound like the card died. It's remarkable how the soundcard industry has collapsed. There are still cards on the market, though. Nothing worse than crud onboard audio.
 
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