Sound Blaster ZXR daughter board not always detected.

[AurealNight]

I have a ZXR sound card with the DBPro daughter board. The sound card works great and is detected all the time every time. No problems with the main card. The daughter card however is not so generous in that it decides to show up in device manager and the Creative SBX software when it wants to. I need the optical out connection on the card in order to run DD 5.1 on my headphones. I've tried reseating the card and uninstalling/reinstalling drivers, and even slowing my boot time to allow for a longer period for the system to detect everything. No dice. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. And also does anybody know if the Recon 3D driver is suppose t be used when you have a ZXR installed? I noticed that in device manager and I'm not sure if that intentional or not.

My system is as follows:

Asus Rampage IV Black Edition
Intel 4930K at stock speed
32GB of DDR3 G.Skill 1600 memory
Kingston Hyper X 128GB SSD for Windows boot drive
Evga GeForce GTX 980 Ti
5 additional hard drives for storage
Asus Blu-Ray burner
Asus DVD burner
Logitech G110 keyboard
Logitech G13 Gameboard
Logitech G600 MMO mouse
Roccat mouse bungee USB hub
Rosewill 1300w Lightning Series PSU
Windows 10 Pro 64bit OS

 

[Lutfij]

First glaring issue is that the sound card has official support for Microsoft's Windows platform up to 8. Second issue can be the OS you're trying to make the sound card run off of as the new platform apparently breaks pretty much any hardware populated in a system running on Windows 10.

And also does anybody know if the Recon 3D driver is suppose t be used when you have a ZXR installed? I noticed that in device manager and I'm not sure if that intentional or not.

The underlying architecture and chip used in the ZXR after the advent of the Core3D chip by Creative found it's way into subsequent sound cards made by them so in essence you're seeing a Recon 3D card in action.

Although stated to have support via a driver release by Creative, it'd be a good idea to stop your automatic device drivers update feature and try uninstalling and reinstalling your drivers under compatibility mode and see if the issue is averted.
Right click installer>Properties>Compatibility Tab>Windows 7/8] [from drop down menu]

 

[AurealNight]

Thanks for the reply but I fixed this months ago. It turns out that Windows 10 auto installs its own drivers for the device even after the user installs ones from the manufacturers website. Drivers from Microsoft are reference drivers and don't function with all the features and compatibility of the native drivers meant to be used from Creative. I downloaded a small "tool" from Microsoft that allows one to deny the auto installation of drivers and updates and I also turned off driver signing for a time until I knew the drivers I wanted were installed and functioning properly. Before all this I removed all traces of anything Creative on my system. After everything was said and done I rebooted the system and both cards were detected properly and the optical out was available for use finally. I checked in device manager on the next 7-8 restarts to make sure Windows 10 was not installing its own drivers again and all has looked and most importantly sounded great for a long while now. Thanks again for your reply.

 

[B_2___]

I have the same issue with my sound blaster ZxR in Windows 10 64 bit it gave me this "the current selected audio device is disabled not present not supported by the application " please help me in this case as soon as possible