Hi,

I installed Windows XP Pro Corporate, I only want to use it as a DVD Player as I'm building a 7.1 speaker system.

I downloaded the newest Revo driver from the Net, it doesn't work - I can't click the Revolution control panel in the Task bar and get no sound from anything.

Then I installed the drivers from the CD, in the way the manual suggested. I can use the control panel then, but can't change volume or anything, 192 khz is greyed out also. Windows itself says "no audio device". The only thing I can get to play something is foobar2000 with Kernel streaming.

Any ideas how to install the card correctly?

Regards,
Sebastian

Is there another soundcard onboard (ie. built-in)? If so, you'll have to go into Control Panel, Sounds and Audio Devices and make the Revo the primary device. Also, if you want to use the 192 khz option, you must install Service Pack 1 (that's in the manual, too). The driver from their website is worth using (or I wouldn't have upgraded mine), but for the life of me, I can't remember why.

The onboard sound is deactivated in BIOS and no other sound cards are in the PC. In control panel it states that NO audio devices are installed, the Revo doesn't even show up... I'll install SP1 for now, maybe that helps in any way...

Edit: The problem remains. 192 khz works now, but the card won't show up as an audio device.

try going to administrative tools/services, look for a "Windows Audio" entry. make sure it is started, then make sure it is set at Automatic. probably already is but just a thought.

Hi,

where do I access these administrative tools? They seem to have a completely different name in the german version, I can't find them by looking through the system.

And it is quite strange... the card is listed everywhere as working, installed and so on, but not so in the audio part of the control panel. Maybe a reinstall would help? Otherwise I'll just have to buy 2 speakers less and be "happy" with Win 2000

Regards,
Sebastian

Maybe here you will find more information on Revo: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/forumdispla....php?forumid=26

I haven't found any topics concerning my problem, so I just did a clean reinstall and the first thing done with XP was installing the card. It works perfectly now Time to buy the speakers

Just for your information: administrative tools = Verwaltung.
The services can be de/activated by opening Systemsteuerung / Verwaltung / Dienste

Regards, fileman.

Thank you, seems to be a really helpful thing... at least it has descriptions, unlike the task manager -> services

I had this exact same problem. Installing new drivers would not work, and the system would no longer play sounds and basically not recognize the revo card anymore. This is the EXACT SAME problem I still have today.

But I have found the solution - or a temporary one short of a format.
I'll post this just in case someone else has problems like this and needs a fix:

After running the installer for the new drivers, the described events happen and the next step is to go to device manager and to the revo properties, update the driver and point it to the "c:\documents and settings\*user whatever it is here*\local settings\temp\" and it should install the drivers that were temporarily extracted into this folder by the exe file.

the system will update the driver and assuming this is XP, your card will work perfectly with the new drivers as intended.

poOp is right, I had to do that the same way on my newly installed w2k sp3.. in fact this was almost automatic for me to check Device Manager and point to drivers manually only when you install original drivers from CD and update them with the downloaded ones it works without a hitch

btw. wonderful card, now I'm trying different op-amps on the outputs.. as far AD826 are my favorites, but anyway - I strongly suggest you to swap the output elyt caps in signal way as they ruin the hights and also make bass lazy sounding.. try film types and don't care much about capacity