Sound Blaster Your Audio Device Cannot Be Detected

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Denisha Simcoe

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Aug 3, 2024, 5:25:52 PM8/3/24

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My motherboard is Biostar A780L3G (integrated GPU disabled). GPU is Radeon HD 7770. I also put Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS on the system. I have to put it on the second (and the last) PCI slot, because Biostar A780L3G is an mATX mobo with only three expansion slots (one PCIe and two PCI), while the Radeon HD 7770 is a dual-slot GPU that naturally blocks the PCI slot next to the PCIe.

I guess you can't place the card on the FIRST logical PCI slot? I know Creative really doesn't like when it's not located as the first PCI device in the system... because you know they can't do anything right.

At first, I installed the Realtek driver first. Then the Audigy 2 ZS was somehow recognized as "Audio Device on high-speed PCI bus" (or something like that). First, I thought THAT was the cause. So then I reformatted the whole damn thing and performed a fresh install of Windows XP SP2. Now the Audigy 2 ZS is recognized as "Unknown PCI device", and Creative Installer still cannot recognize the Audigy 2.

Haven't got the chance. My other systems are all office computers, and the workload is high. It's not one of those times where I could tell my employee to step aside because I, the boss, want to tinker with his PC! ?

My Dell variant Audigy 2 ZS behaved this way. At one point, I worked out a way to install it with the official Sound Blaster OEM install disc, but I can't find my notes on that now. If you find that your card is a Dell variant, let me know and I'll search out my notes. Or, you could just use the Daniel K. drivers. They just work without having to play any silly games.

The Dell variants have the same model number as the real Audigy 2 ZS cards. Mine also has the gold connectors, just like a real Audigy 2 ZS card. The best way to identify the Dell variant is by looking at the serial number, not the model number. For example, here's the serial number on my card:

Also, Dell variants usually have three stickers on the back of the card. Real Audigy 2 ZS cards only have one sticker on the back. However, you should still use the serial number to make a positive identification.

From what I've read, the only difference between the Dell variant and the official Audigy 2 ZS is that the Dell version lacks an onboard Dolby decoder. If you want the onboard decoder, then get an official Audigy 2 ZS.

Also, even if I could use the Audigy 2 in the first slot, it's still useless for my purpose, because this system is a test system where I'm going to test both the Radeon and the Audigy. The Radeon is for old games, while the Audigy is to test whether Virtual Audio Cable (or similar solution) could channel the Audigy 5.1 analog signal into the Radeon's HDMI. I'd like to try something like this, but to HDMI out instead of SPDIF out.

Nowadays, I don't even bother with the disc. It is entirely outdated. Get the Daniel K. drivers. They just work, and they work well. The best part is that you don't have to go back and update when you're done.

One thing I hate about Creative official drivers: it insists to install the intrusive, spammy Creative Product Registration, despite the installation fails to detect a Creative Card. Those corporate bastards....

I've had my ZS not picked up by creative drivers, Sometimes installing the drivers Then the card, sometimes different slot, and sometimes just changing my shirt seems to work.
Admittedly this is mostly on WIn98 but at least one XP machine. The ZS is my favourite card, have 3 of them, but drivers do lack a lot to be desired.
For XP you can also try the basic drivers still on the creative web site

Like I said, I have successfully installed my Audigy 2 ZS using Daniel Kawami drivers, thanks to KT7AGuy. The Audigy 2 works, it does emit sound. I have only tested it in 2 channel mode, but I cannot see why wouldn't it work in 5.1 mode.

Out of curiosity, I decided to install the Realtek ALC 662 driver as well. It is said that Creative sound cards and Realtek on-board sound card cannot get along with each other. Then I installed the Realtek WDM driver. Guess what, it works!

I'm not sure what the heck is going on, but at least I managed to install both Audigy 2 ZS sound card and Realtek ALC 662 on-board sound on my PC. It would make nice configuration for DJ'ing purpose; the Realtek is for headphones, while the Audigy for main audio output.

Anyway, shut down process still lags considerably. Yes, shutdown (both shutdown and restart) always takes very looong time after installing Daniel K driver. I don't know if it's general Creative driver problem, or if it's exclusively Daniel K driver problem. However, it's small potato. I can live with that. The important thing is the Audigy 2 works.

Wow, WinXP and with Luna theme. Yuck. Sorry, couldn't resist. For some reason this is strongly associated for me with computers so badly infected with malware that the only remedy is to freshly install Windows and burn the house down. ?

I think that "device" is FireWire port on the back (it's seen as Audio device, because it's on sound card).
Try installing Fire Wire or IEEE 1394 driver from driver CD, and see what shows up.
You can always disable it if it causes problems.
Also, Audigy 2 ZS should be seen under "Sound, video and Game controllers" section of Device Manager.

I have been using Ubuntu 22.04 for some time now, but today when I booted up I found that the only output device for sound is Dummy Output and there are no Input Devices. Prior to this, both my microphones and various output devices were being correctly detected in Ubuntu 22.04

as per Upgrade from 21.04 to 22.04, audio lost (Dummy output only) , and generally rebooted/shutdown several times along with attempting to reboot pulseaudio control, start it in daemon mode, and so on.

It happened because my user was not included in the audio group (/etc/group). Adding the user back and re-logging after a restart allowed the user level systemctl Pipewire services to recognize hardware devices.

Hello all,
Sorry to bother you guys but I have been trying to fis my sound for the longest time. I have an HP Probook 450 G7 and I cannot get any sound playing on the computer. I was able to play sound before but after I took the computer to a repair store to be fixed because my bios updated and the power went out, I have not been able to activate any sound. I have tried aplay -l and it says no sound cards detected. However when I ran a system diagnostics in the bios the audio passed. Can anyone help please?

I just installed batocera 5.24 in my old Rikomagic MK36S (x86 64 bits Intel Atom x5-Z8300 chip) and must say that I've been pleasantly surprised. Such a great job!! Specially when you compare with other Retro gaming platform options.

Everything worked flawlessly but I suddenly realized that I could only get the audio through the 3.5 jack output, not through HDMI. I checked the "audio settings" and I could only find 3 options (auto, custom and USB), but nothing about HDMI there. I tried accesing Alsa Mixer (Ctrl+Alt+F4) and I confirmed that no audio card had been detected by the system.

This could be just another case of a chip no supported and that would be fine, but the point is that afterwards I installed Recalbox (6.1.1-DragonBlaze) on the same device and the sound over HDMI worked perfectly!! I entered in the "audio settings" menu again and I checked there were much more options among them the HDMI ones that didn't appear on the same menu in Batocera. I selected "[2:2] HDMILPEAUDIO - INTEL HDMI/DP LPE AUDIO =" option and the sound over HDMI worked.

I was taking a look to the Batocera WIKI and I read that HDMI audio is disabled by default, so I followed the steps described to enable it again changing syslinux.cfg files in EFI and BOOT folders (It's extrange that in the WIKI refers to a different file name: grub.cfg) but nothing changed and the audio over HDMI kept on not working.

So, in a nutshell, looks like this device is able to play sound through HDMI (Recalbox is able to do it) but for any reason is not working in Batocera.
Could anybody help me?? Thank you very much in advance

Did you try all listed audio output devices within kodi? i mean, did you select every single one listed there and tested, if you get sound within kodi? (you could test with some video-stream addon or watching a movie for example)