Windows 10: Does this soundcard look okay?

Hi

Does this look ok for a sound card?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

My motherboards soundcard does not work. I then purchased a sound blaster z sound card. That now does not work. So i was looking for cheaper soundcards and came up with the link above.

I listen to a lot of music from my desktop. So i need something that is going to play audio very well.

:)

 

No sound in external soundcard

Also, another thing to mention, if I am connected to the soundcard, and I play a song on spotify, it just "plays" each song in the list for a split second, with no sound of course, and stops eventually, saying it couldn't play the songs.

 

Windows 10 update 'unplugged' my laptop soundcard. Help.


Hi;

It seems the last windows update (which i have since rolled back from to no avail) has 'unplugged' my internal soundcard in my alienware m17x r4 (a soundblaster recon 3di).

Turned computer on to find speakers not working and not listed under playback devices, jacks and headphones were however ok.

Today I tried to fix it by uninstalling all creative drivers and reinstalling (hadn't looked at device manager at this point). On trying to reinstall everything kept giving me "no supported device" type errors and wouldn't allow me to put creative drivers or software back on (tried extracting packages, running as admin etc).

Then I had a look at device manager only to find my soundcard was no longer listed but even worse there are no mystery devices to install drivers for. It also won't detect any new hardware. Using the add legacy option only gave me one option from creative as a manufacturer which was totally inappropriate. Dxdiag also shows no soundcard now, and the bios has nothing mentioning a sound device. There are however two entries under system devices in device manager called "high definition audio controller".

After a lot of rebooting I seemed able to install a driver successfully (using an installer, not directly via device manager) and the sb control panel (which I need for my jacks to work), however still no soundcard showing, no speakers and no sound through jacks. Eventually I tried using a program called drivereasy to check my drivers thinnking it might see something i couldn't. Happily I saw it had an entry for an audio device, and even listed it correctly as a recon 3di and offered to download an updated driver. However...it lists the device as unplugged.

How on earth do i force windows to see it again or virtually plug it back in?!

Since 'upgrading' from windows 7 Ive had a few problems with the sound and installing drivers but never had the entire device vanish....even from device manager. At my wits end, googled my arse off, tried a lot of suggestions but am going quietly insane.

 

Soundcard, worth it?

do you demand high quality of sound? better like thx dolby or like that?
are you kinda audiophile? if yes, you could add soundcard in your list
for daily use you could use onboard soundcard. for today onboard soundcard is pretty good but for serious need you need serious card.