Asus Xonar DX giving sound, not taking any in!

[DeltrusDisc]

Yes sir, it is.

[haxartus]

Do you have front panel plugged in ? If you do, try if you have sound from there.
Though it still sounds like a driver issue.

[DeltrusDisc]

Only thing that is plugged into the front - which is also of course disabled now, is the headphone jack for my headset.

[haxartus]

You can connect the front panel to the sound card to see if you have mic sound from there.

[DeltrusDisc]

That's true, I'll try it, brb - killing my cable management. ;p

[Fuzzykins]

You can connect the front panel to the sound card to see if you have mic sound from there.

You can? The front panel isn't a run-through, it's a separate header...

[haxartus]

You can? The front panel isn't a run-through, it's a separate header...

What do you mean by this ? You just get the "HD audio" cable from the front panel and connect it to the sound card. You need to manually switch from the GUI to make the speakers working tho.

[DeltrusDisc]

So I plugged the HD Audio cable into the little slot on the sound card for the front panel, but how do I get this stuff to work now? >_> I'm lost, the GUI for this sound card kind of... well... SUCKS.

[haxartus]

Does the microphone work at all on the front panel ? You need to select FP from the analog out but that's for headphones or speakers.

[DeltrusDisc]

Nothing is coming through from it in the front panel - I even made the Recording devices show all disabled and disconnected, only ones showing up are Microphone, Line In, Aux, Stereo Mix, and Wave.

[haxartus]

What about from the Xonar GUI - Mixer - Record.

[DeltrusDisc]

Okay that DID pick it up, however the Sound Recorder is still not picking anything up.

Yay progress!

[haxartus]

Click on the eye thing and try talking.

[DeltrusDisc]

For the record I DID have to turn on the little monitor icon, without it on it doesn't pick up my mic, I figure that's meant to be like that - I did hear my voice through the speakers with it though, now we just need to make this work elsewhere.

[haxartus]

No, this is so you can hear your voice. It shouldn't be enabled constantly.
Now we know that at least it can see the microphone and it's working.

[DeltrusDisc]

Figured. Yeah that works but the sound recorder still doesn't.

[haxartus]

I'm still thinking that it's not using it as a default microphone.
Uninstall the driver completely while having the integrated card disabled from device manager, so you won't have any sound devices at all, and then install the driver again. Or better, install the modified driver from here.
The idea is that during the installation there won't be any sound devices, so it will enable all of the Xonar ones as default.

[Detritas]

Apologies if you've tried this already but I had this issue with this card also, each time I installed the driver all 3 times I (re)installed Windows 7. It seems to turn on the "Front Mic" option on by default which, until disabled, made my microphone unable to be heard on Skype etc even when everything else was seemingly configured correctly.

Control panel -> hardware and sound -> sound -> recording tab -> right click on your sound card microphone and press properties -> custom tab -> untick "Front Mic".

See if that works.

[haxartus]

Apologies if you've tried this already but I had this issue with this card also, each time I installed the driver all 3 times I (re)installed Windows 7. It seems to turn on the "Front Mic" option on by default which, until disabled, made my microphone unable to be heard on Skype etc even when everything else was seemingly configured correctly.

Control panel -> hardware and sound -> sound -> recording tab -> right click on your sound card microphone and press properties -> custom tab -> untick "Front Mic".

See if that works.

Strangely I don't have this problem too. Mine is checked.

[Detritas]

Ah, whoops. In my haste to respond I missed the last letter of the model - mine is the DG, not the DX - you can just ignore me, sorry!