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I didn't expect to upgrade my win 7, HP xw4600 sound center so soon. Weather, did a bad brown out, killed the os, not the hdds? Took a look at the win 7 re install to be near impossible, so went to win 10 1511. Hum? no audio, drivers were both hd audio devices, one, realtek, on the mb, the other x-fi, both the x-fi & the realtek mb sound channel, were not functioning. I went through every driver I could find. I went through 8 tb of backup files dating to before 2009, the only driver I found to work, but every time you reboot, no snd untill you re install the 2009 not digitally signed driver. Somewhere in the search for x-fi backup drivers on this massive 8 tb hdd group, I found a 2010 driver with the build ending in 76, where the 2009 driver ends in 74. The .xx76 2010 driver is ms digitally signed, & it works in win 10, would you believe. I have full functionality back all of the way to 32 bit optical processing in/output channels. Awesome the quality of 32 bit. I thought I lost the toss link in / out of this card, that drastically reduces system noise. The high sample rate & 32 bit really does something for HD audio. It is an experience you need to enjoy personally. It was a very difficult journey, to seek out to find the answer to this complex sound driver problem. To begin with, the driver that fixed the problem, I could not find, in recent searches of the web, that specific driver install, seems to have disappeared? I found it in a file backup copy to hdd's dating back possibly 10 years. Had I not found this digitally signed driver, I don't think I would ever have seen this x-fi card work again in windows 10. I will say this... It has something to do with the new/old dateing of install files, & the actual good driver has to make windows think it is newer than the hd audio win 10 driver. It wasn't easy to track down & overcome the failure. It also wasn't just an install to fix it. It takes some serious feature installs, & driver installs, then un installs, then re installs, to over write the various driver files dates, to teach the os which driver was best by over writing drivers multiple times to teach windows not to use the hd audio driver, & accept the older 2010 driver as the best to install. Believe me, that is how it happened... good luck giving it a try on your end of the earth. You can bet that x-fi card found in many win 7 systems, can work in windows 10 with no problem whatsoever! Awesome...
I am locking this thread since the vast majority of the posts are the OP replying to himself and/or attacking others.
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I am locking this thread since the vast majority of the posts are the OP replying to himself and/or attacking others.
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