asus ASUS Sound Card Essence STX II

[Ryznn421]

Hi folks,

 

I've installed a new ASUS Sound Card Essence STX II and of the 3 possible sound outputs (analog, headphone, S/PDIF), only the S/PDIF works and while ONLY connected to an external DAC (Audioengine D1 24-Bit DAC), which defeats the purpose of this soundcard. 

 

I bought this soundcard to drive my Sennheiser HD800s (300 ohms).

 

I've disabled the on-board audio through the BIOS, uninstalled the on-board audio drivers as well as not installing the NVidia audio drivers. I have the newest drivers from ASUS.

When I switch from Analog Out source (headphone, 2 speakers, FP headphone, FP 2 speakers), I hear a distinctive "click" in my case. I'm going to assume it's the sound card clicking because the clicking goes away when I remove the sound card.

 

The PC isn't crashing or giving me any errors. I only have 2 Playback sources listed: Speakers & S/PDIF Pass-through Device, of which, Speakers is set to default.

 

I've reached out to Asus support but haven't had a response other than they're working on it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Intel Core i7-8700K
ASUS ROG MAXIMUS X FORMULA (bios 1602 installed)
ASUS ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (Nvidia 398.36)
Samsung SSD M.2 970 PRO 512GB

Samsung SSD 850 EVO 1TB 
Seagate IronWolf ST12000VN0007 12TB
G.SKILL TridentZ Series 32GB DDR4 3200
ASUS Sound Card Essence STX II ((5.12.0001.0008)
Seasonic PRIME Ultra 1000W 80+ Titanium Power Supply
Windows 10 (64bit)
Anti virus: Windows Defender

[Himommies]

8 minutes ago, Ryznn421 said:

I've reached out to Asus support but haven't had a response other than they're working on it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

I would wait for this as I don't want you to do something that voids warranty