"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote:
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 mo
https://www.amazon.co.uk/StarTech-co.../dp/B0024CV3SA

Of course it's possibly not a hardware problem and just Windows being weird
- it does that.

Theo