sound card problems

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@newbiexps8920 wrote:

i just bought a (lynx e44) pcie soundcard for my dell xps 8920 about 3 weeks ago it was working fine then all of a sudden its not reading my card anymore the card doesnt even pop out in my device manager i tried switching pcie slots but no luck any suggestions on what it could be?

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Sounds like a bad card. I've seen DoA PCIe addin cards and even some that only last a few hours.

Maybe try it in another machine.

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@newbiexps8920 wrote:
wow bad card i spent 1000$ on it i really hope thats not what it is

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If the card is not detected in Device Manager (and you have no "mystery devices" or devices in error) ... what do YOU think the problem could be?

Even without drivers, it should still be detected in some way.

Testing in other (known good) machine will answer some questions.

i see what your saying i only had the card for 3 weeks..i dont have access to another machine hopefully i can return it for another card  

The issue is that the card is PCI-E 1.0 and your machine has pci-E 3.0 slots.  Older PCI-E is not forward compatible with faster and faster bus. The change in power and voltage and line code from the slot breaks backward compatibility between PCI Express 3.0/2.1 cards and some older cards with 1.0a/1.1

I recognize that specific card.

ITS VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY OLD.

https://www.lynxstudio.com/products/e44/

Designed to go into Mac Pro Towers from 2009 to 2012 running Mountain Lion OSX 10.8

OS X Mountain Lion was released on July 25, 2012

This card works with OSX and Windows ASIO

ASIO comes from Steinberg

https://www.steinberg.net/en/products/audio_interfaces.html

http://www.asio4all.org/

The power and LINE CODE and Bus Speed is Completely different for PCI 3.0 and 2.1   vs   2.0 and 1.1

VER            Linecode      XFR               ×1             ×2            ×4              ×8              ×16

Couple years down the road here.  I bought one for my Optiplex and the E44 won't play nice with Windows 11.  Audio out is fine, but audio in/recording refuses to work properly.