First post, by Azrael128
Hi everyone,
I am new here and you guys are probably my last hope.
I have this Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS (SB0350) which I love dearly. I used to use it with the kX drivers and do stuff that even $700+ modern hardware can't compete with. Trouble is, it seems to get it increasingly hard to get stuff like that to work.
On my previous, X570-based motherboard, I used a PCIe-to-PCI adapter/riser card based on a Pericom PI7C9X111SL bridge. It worked on some PCIe slots, not all, but heh, one was enough and I daily drove that card for the last 5 years.
I have now upgraded to an X670e-based motherboard and unfortunately, this is where it becomes horribly complicated:
- The aforementioned adapter is not detected at all, whichever slot I put it in, whichever settings I change in the BIOS. The bridge simply isn't enumerated at all, and thus neither is the sound card.
- I bought a new adapter, this time based on a PLX PEX8112 bridge. That one is detected and so is the sound card, but the sound card behavior is erratic at best: no sound with the official drivers, and with kX, the sound is very quiet and distorted, especially in the low frequencies. Recording doesn't work properly, sound coming from the p16v is at the wrong pitch, etc.
Does anyone have any solution, or can come up with an adapter or bridge that is known to work? I could buy just all the available adapters on Amazon and return whatever doesn't work, but they generally highly frown upon this.
Of course, worst case scenario, I guess I could go with an Audigy Rx, but then I would lose the p16v with kX, so I'd rather just keep my Audigy 2ZS.
Anyone had any luck with a specific combination on modern, AM5 motherboards?
Thanks in advance!
