Caporegime
Hi folks, rare occurrence me posting a tech issue so you know its an obscure doozy... 
I have an old Asus Xonar Essence STX which has always worked flawlessly.
It is in the following system:
Ryzen 5600X
MAG B550 Tomahawk
32GB (4x 8GB) Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 3200
Radeon RX6700XT
Corsair SF600
2x SN850 1TB, 2x SU800 2TB
The Asus Xonar Essence STX Audio Centre has always opened and worked fine, I use it every day to switch between speakers and headphones, until today when I got this error. I still have audio, so I know the core driver components are working:
Things I've tried, including the obvious:
Restarted the PC
Checked device manager and confirmed everything displays correctly
Disabled onboard audio in BIOS
Re-installed drivers
Installed Asus unified drivers
Manually placed driver files in system folder
Disabled all other audio devices (steam virtual audio, usb audio device for my microphone, Pico virtual audio, virtual desktop audio, etc)
Ran system file checker /cleanupimage /restorehealth
Checked for and installed a couple of Windows updates
Checked the card and the power connector were installed fully (even though I knew they would be, just as a sanity check)
The card physically works perfectly, the relays click when I boot or when I open audio applications
Both the headphone front panel audio and rear speaker RCA audio output perfectly (I was using headphones initially, after reinstalling drivers the first time it switched to the rear output)
For now I have just plugged my headphones into my hifi amp because I was getting stressy about it and thinking about doing a Windows 'refresh install' with the media creation tool to see if that helped...
TIA for any insight.
I have an old Asus Xonar Essence STX which has always worked flawlessly.
It is in the following system:
Ryzen 5600X
MAG B550 Tomahawk
32GB (4x 8GB) Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 3200
Radeon RX6700XT
Corsair SF600
2x SN850 1TB, 2x SU800 2TB
The Asus Xonar Essence STX Audio Centre has always opened and worked fine, I use it every day to switch between speakers and headphones, until today when I got this error. I still have audio, so I know the core driver components are working:
Things I've tried, including the obvious:
Restarted the PC
Checked device manager and confirmed everything displays correctly
Disabled onboard audio in BIOS
Re-installed drivers
Installed Asus unified drivers
Manually placed driver files in system folder
Disabled all other audio devices (steam virtual audio, usb audio device for my microphone, Pico virtual audio, virtual desktop audio, etc)
Ran system file checker /cleanupimage /restorehealth
Checked for and installed a couple of Windows updates
Checked the card and the power connector were installed fully (even though I knew they would be, just as a sanity check)
The card physically works perfectly, the relays click when I boot or when I open audio applications
Both the headphone front panel audio and rear speaker RCA audio output perfectly (I was using headphones initially, after reinstalling drivers the first time it switched to the rear output)
For now I have just plugged my headphones into my hifi amp because I was getting stressy about it and thinking about doing a Windows 'refresh install' with the media creation tool to see if that helped...
TIA for any insight.
