Hi pals...
I have an MSI K8N-Neo Platinum Motherboard with an on-board 7.1 Realtek Sound card and I have it (since I bought it two months ago) connected to a Philips Home Theater thru the Coaxial Digital connection.
1- Yesterday, while I was listening to some music, the sound suddenly stopped (but Winamp showed the sound meters still moving) as if it kept playing...
2- I touched the wire that connects the line out and line in and the sound resumed, but after a while it stopped again and the same thing happened.
3- I first tried unistalling the sound card drivers and re installing them. But the sound card uninstall process falied and it showed me an error. Thus, I re.installed the drivers and repeated the procedure to unistall and the same error appeared.
4- I accessed windows thru error mode and I realised the sound card didn't play at all there. And it didn't give me any possibility to choose the sound card as if it didnd't recognise it.
5- Then, I Changed the digital wire connection for the Analog wire connection (to check if the sound card was burnt) but the music sounded perfectly...
You'll ask me, if the analog connection works... why trouble with the digital which doesn't? and the answer is because digital connection is much better than analog and because the connection worked before all this happened, so why doesn't it work now?
6- Next step was to update Sound cards Drivers and the analog connection keeps rendering sound, but the digital one DOESN'T

Anyone has any idea what the problem can be here and how it can be solved? I'd appreciate any input..