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Ravenbear
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Ok, this is going to be a bit long and I will try and cover it all.  The makeup of my system is in my signature

I got a Sound Blaster X Katan. when I first set it up and installed  Sound Blaster Connect 2.  I was running it through Bluetooth and it worked fine, I could open Connect 2 and adjust things. Then one day I wanted to try it through the USB. And open up Connect 2 and got it could not find my audio device. And the only sound device it showed was my headset and Bluetooth.  Both the Bluetooth and the USB sound showed up in device manager. But the USB was not an option when I opened the sound control panel. The only way I could get the USB to work was to install generic USB drivers. I have done several hours trying to get this figured this out, I have reinstalled the drivers in every way I could think of some more than once, I upgraded the firmware, I have turned the onboard sound on and off, I have uninstalled the drives and rebooted, I have changed USB ports, I and tried drivers two gens back, uninstalled the booted in safe mode, and several other things and still I cannot get Connect 2 to see it, or for it to work with the Sound Blaster drivers.  I really need a new take on this issue. Thanks in advance.

I am a disabled Vet who had his hands crushed. Typing is not the easiest thing. So if I misspelled something please understand. Thank you.

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29 minutes ago, Ravenbear said:

Ok, this is going to be a bit long and I will try and cover it all.  The makeup of my system is in my signature

I got a Sound Blaster X Katan. when I first set it up and installed  Sound Blaster Connect 2.  I was running it through Bluetooth and it worked fine, I could open Connect 2 and adjust things. Then one day I wanted to try it through the USB. And open up Connect 2 and got it could not find my audio device. And the only sound device it showed was my headset and Bluetooth.  Both the Bluetooth and the USB sound showed up in device manager. But the USB was not an option when I opened the sound control panel. The only way I could get the USB to work was to install generic USB drivers. I have done several hours trying to get this figured this out, I have reinstalled the drivers in every way I could think of some more than once, I upgraded the firmware, I have turned the onboard sound on and off, I have uninstalled the drives and rebooted, I have changed USB ports, I and tried drivers two gens back, uninstalled the booted in safe mode, and several other things and still I cannot get Connect 2 to see it, or for it to work with the Sound Blaster drivers.  I really need a new take on this issue. Thanks in advance.

Perhaps you can use System Restore and go to a previous date when it all worked fine.  You will not lost any data doing this.

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2 hours ago, Ravenbear said:

Ok, this is going to be a bit long and I will try and cover it all.  The makeup of my system is in my signature

I got a Sound Blaster X Katan. when I first set it up and installed  Sound Blaster Connect 2.  I was running it through Bluetooth and it worked fine, I could open Connect 2 and adjust things. Then one day I wanted to try it through the USB. And open up Connect 2 and got it could not find my audio device. And the only sound device it showed was my headset and Bluetooth.  Both the Bluetooth and the USB sound showed up in device manager. But the USB was not an option when I opened the sound control panel. The only way I could get the USB to work was to install generic USB drivers. I have done several hours trying to get this figured this out, I have reinstalled the drivers in every way I could think of some more than once, I upgraded the firmware, I have turned the onboard sound on and off, I have uninstalled the drives and rebooted, I have changed USB ports, I and tried drivers two gens back, uninstalled the booted in safe mode, and several other things and still I cannot get Connect 2 to see it, or for it to work with the Sound Blaster drivers.  I really need a new take on this issue. Thanks in advance.

I would do what @Turtle Rig said, if not, we need a budget.

LTT's Resident Porsche fanboy and nutjob Audiophile.

 

Main speaker setup is now;

 

Mini DSP SHD Studio -> 2x Mola Mola Tambaqui DAC's (fed by AES/EBU, one feeds the left sub and main, the other feeds the right side) -> 2x Neumann KH420 + 2x Neumann KH870

 

(Having a totally seperate DAC for each channel is game changing for sound quality)

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On 5/11/2019 at 7:41 PM, Derkoli said:

I would do what @Turtle Rig said, if not, we need a budget.

I'll give that a try. It is about the only thing I have not done.

I am a disabled Vet who had his hands crushed. Typing is not the easiest thing. So if I misspelled something please understand. Thank you.

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 CPU Intel i7 9900k Motherboard ROG Maximus XI Code RAM 64gb DDR4 3000mhz Corsair Dominator GPU RTX 2080ti FE x 2 Case Corsair GRAPHITE 780T Storage 2 Western Digital Blue 4 TB HHDs, 1tb Western Digital SSD. Seagate Barracuda 2tb Hybrid drive, and  1 Western Digital M.2 1tb PSU Corsair HX 1200 Displays 1 Samsung U28D590 28in and 1 Samsung C49hg90DMN 49 Cooling Alphacool Eiswolf GPX Pro / Alphacool Eisbaer 240

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1 hour ago, Ravenbear said:

I'll give that a try. It is about the only thing I have not done.

System restore has saved me a million god damn times. Best thing in windows.

LTT's Resident Porsche fanboy and nutjob Audiophile.

 

Main speaker setup is now;

 

Mini DSP SHD Studio -> 2x Mola Mola Tambaqui DAC's (fed by AES/EBU, one feeds the left sub and main, the other feeds the right side) -> 2x Neumann KH420 + 2x Neumann KH870

 

(Having a totally seperate DAC for each channel is game changing for sound quality)

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