So far nothing works, after following all of your suggestions. I have restored my system back to before and have reboxed this card up to return to Amazon. Realtek has defeated me again (this is not the first time I've fought with it - gaming is hell with no sound on Bioshock) If I did buy an...
After years of fighting Realtek's awful onboard audio on my Dell Studio XPS 8100 (running Windows 7 64bit), I have bought a Creative X-Fi Surround 5.1 Pro external. I followed instructions exactly on the installation, but cannot get any sound. Since it was supposed to be plug and play I'm...