> This is a quite old balanced in/out pro sound card. Has digital in out too.
> > Was previously working fine under Win7. But is a PCI card.
> >
> > New MB is PCI-Ex only.
> >
> > Got an adpator for not a lot which gives you twin PCI slots from a PCI-EX
> > x1. Really designed to be used external to the PC via a USB 3 lead. The
> > USB lead goes between the PCI EX card and the board with the twin PCI > > slots.
> Those things are taking liberties with the PCI spec. They
> perhaps/maybe/probably work, until they don't. The use of USB 3 cabling is
> a massive hack (although electrically it's actually reasonably matched).
> I'd trust something like this a bit more:
>
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Snag with that is the DigiGram is a full height card.
Of course it's possibly not a hardware problem and just Windows being weird
> - it does that.
> Theo