Sound BlasterX AE-5

Wow, Woke up this morning and started the computer and started to make coffee and what did I hear. My computer startup sound, I thought what the %$#@. So it's working again for some reason. Have know idea, maybe the IRQ got it right on the startup. I'm a happy camper anyway.

 

Clean out Creative Driver leftovers using Driver Sweeper in Safe Mode.
https://www.techspot.com/downloads/4266-driver-sweeper.html

 

Probably windows update installed a driver silently...

 

Or this...win10 infamous ninja update.

 

Creative now lists the BXAE5_PCDRV_L13_3_2_24_0.exe driver on their site.

It does look like whining about something helps. So happy that they made it so that speaker configuration doesn't reset to 5.1 when using headphones.

This is the same as the Windows Update driver. Newer Sound Blaster Connect 2 app though.

 

i have windows update off. I checked and it's the same driver I installed last night. But nothing happened after I cleared the Cmos and took the sound and video card out and put the sound card back in a different pcie slot I rebooted the computer and it did not play any sound so I gave up by then.. So I thought I would just reinstall the newest driver at the time that I had on anyway and then watched tv for awhile and shut down and called it a night.. So it must have been reinstalling the driver after I did all IRQ changes with different pcie slots I guess.

 

It being an IRQ issue is as much a guess as anything else, we have almost nothing to work with.
Its mildly plausible, nothing should be discounted.

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If it works better in other pci-e slots it might be a problem with that slot.

 

yes I never thought of that. A new computer as well.

 

after upgrading windows to 1803, the microphone stopped working in all programs, but in the windows test it works.
Has anyone had the same problem?

 

Its something to do with app access in privacy for the mic. You need to enable it.

 

Dont work =/
I need back to 1709 windows...

Someone install windows 1803, and works fine ?

 

Just picked up my 2nd AE-5 pure edition, the first ones rgb light on the card itself was non functional. Now the rgb light works on the replacement card and the led strips work but absolutely nothing I do will change the colors or patterns of the leds on the card itself or the led strips. They are all on but on like a default light blue/white color. I had this issue previous to 1803 and now on a 100% clean install on 1803 I am still experiencing the issue. I can't seem to find a single thread or topic of anyone else experiencing this issue. So yea Win 10x64 1803 and also on the previous fall creators update. Card is detected and installs just fine and the sound works, but it's as if nothing I do with the software works correctly. For instance I Can change the different preset EQ modes and it does nothing regardless of which speaker mode I have selected aka headphone 7.1, stereo etc. I am using the latest driver BXAE5_PCDRV_L13_3_2_24_0.exe. Any ideas?

 

Here too, some times sound blaster connect dont work, mic dont work and i need back to win 10x64 1709...

 

Have you connected the molex power to the card?

 

yea, I don't think the led strips would even light up if the molex power wasn't connected

 

I had the same issue with 1709 though

 

I'm seriously out of ideas here. I now looked and realized that the led lights on the card itself are no longer on, but the lighting strips are still on with a random color on here and there while the rest are still the blue/white hue. I suppose I could try it in another pc, but they are also running windows 10x64 and now also on 1803. I completely uninstalled the drivers and installed the original release driver and that didn't change a thing, so I am now back on the latest driver. Its crazy that i cant seem to find not one single post from someone experiencing the same lighting issue as me.

 

It may be faulty.
Contact Creative, its better than pulling your hair out

 

Thing is this is my second card with this same issue, I suppose it could be bad luck. I do however have a third card I will try today, what are the odds of having 3 bad cards? Currently installing this current card in another pc to see if It has the same issues.

Update: Ok so card had exact same issues in other pc. I got out 3rd card, installed it in other pc. ITS ALIVE!!! It is working exactly as intended as far as the lighting goes. So now to go put 3rd card in to my pc and see if it still works, I sure hope my pc isn’t frying these cards (but Only the light function somehow as the sound and detection works perfectly). I’ve got a 100w psu so the lack of power isn’t an issue and it’s brand new molex plug too. Here goes nothing

Update2: Alright, ***k me sideways and call me Sally, it appears it is my PSU destroying these. Tried a different cable same issue in my pc, even tried different modular power slot and still had issues. Now to replace the PSU....

 

OK dudes I need some help. For the life of me, I can't figure out why the audio output coming out of my AE-5 sounds muted at times. Right now I'm listening to a track and it sounds great, the volume is right where I want it to be. However, if I shutdown and boot back up, the volume will sound muted and completely different.

I think it has to do with the settings not being saved, specifically the DIALOG + setting. I don't have the SoundBlaster Connect 2 app running on start up, so does that mean that the settings will not be saved? When the dialog+ setting is turned on, the audio output is muted.