Z170X-Gaming 7 - ASUS PCI Express Xonar DX XD Sound Card Not Recognized

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Any Input Appreciated: My Troubleshooting Methods are Listed:

ASUS PCI Express Xonar DX XD Sound Card Not Recognized

• Windows Device Manager does not detect the card. Nor does Speccy.

• I have tried three different PCI-E slots. Having switched slots with my Wi-Fi card. So, the PCI slots are not the issue.

• I uninstalled all audio devices and drivers, as well as disabled onboard audio in the BIOS and then installed the card.

• I tired installing two different versions of the official drivers, 8_1_8_1823 & 8_1_8_1823-beta, as well as the UNI drivers, UNi-Xonar-W10-1825-v1.81a-r2.

• Auxiliary power appears to be properly connected.

• Audio card EEPROM is NOT overwritten. As it doesn’t show up in device manager. http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Xonar_EEPROM_Failure

• I do not think that the Audio card needs to be reseated in the PCIe slot, as I have removed and installed it numerous times.

• I always grounded myself, and remained very conscious of that, so I did not fry the card.

• I have tried stopping and restarting the Windows Audio and Windows Audio Endpoint Services.
• The motherboard shows code: A0: Initiation has Started, which is a Non-Error code.

• The power supply shouldn’t be an issue: http://www.overclock.net/t/1345048/asus-xonar-dx-not-detecting-power-supply

• I have tried, mixing and matching these solutions possible solutions and variables with no success.

System Info:

Operating System
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
CPU
Intel Core i3 6100 @ 3.70GHz 35 °C
Skylake 14nm Technology
RAM
16.0GB Dual-Channel Unknown @ 1066MHz (15-15-15-35)
Motherboard
Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. Z170X-Gaming 7 (U3E1) 28 °C
Graphics
SCEI MONITOR (1920x1080@60Hz)
D24-D1 (1920x1080@60Hz)
4095MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 (EVGA) 39 °C
Storage
238GB Intel Raid 0 Volume (RAID)
Optical Drives
No optical disk drives detected
Audio
High Definition Audio Device
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