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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ranmas" data-source="post: 115884" data-attributes="member: 7891">Ok, I think I've actually seen this issue pop up rarely in Windows 7 as well.  The drivers and everything appear to be working, but you still have no sound through the back of your card, yet you can still get audio from the front panel headphone jack.  Yeah, it does seem to be a bit of a problem with Windows 8 as well, much more of a problem in fact.  I can't say that I've gone through many restarts yet, but I had audio after the first restart I know, but then I lost it at some point, I'm not sure when exactly as I wasn't really using programs that used sounds for a few days.  Anyway, the trick I use to get sound back up and running without reinstalling drivers is to simply launch the creative volume panel/switcher and switch modes.  The first switch brings back sound, and then I just return to the mode I was using and away I go with sound again.    It does seem however that it has a short memory on what your speaker setup is.  I have mine set to 5.1, and I have seen it switch to 2.1 a few times on me, but both of these issues are a fairly quick and easy change.  Not that we should have to mess with this for it to work, but you have to deal with what creative and microsoft gives us.</blockquote>