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I've bought an Asus Xonar D1 sound card a year ago. Since then I've been enjoying the sound quality and being plagued by it's bugs. Some were solved by switching to 3rd-party drivers, but one bug persisted:

I'm using the card in 2 channel mode (stereo). Sometimes after PC boots up one of the channels would be silent. Rarely that would also happen mid-work, one channel would suddenly become mute. So the sound would be playing only through the other channel. Changing sound properties (volume, balance) or soundcard drivers features (DG and such) would not help.

The bug persisted with official and 3rd-party drivers. Jacks and sound-system are not to blame (swapping all of those those did not help). Which lead me to believe that's a hardware problem (see the answer).

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The problem seems to be caused by faulty hardware relays on the card. They do click on and off when the card gets initialized and sometimes contact seems to be not made or to break off.

Slow remedy:

  1. Reboot PC. This way whole card gets reinitialized (re-clicking all its relays) and starts to work properly.

Quicker remedy:

  1. Open "Device Manager" -> "Sound, Video and Game Controllers" -> "ASUS Xonar DX Audio Device" -> "Disable Device". Windows may ask you to reboot if you had sounds played in the last 15sec or so - if it does, say "No" and try again in 10sec or so. (something to do with cache cleanup?).
  2. Now re-enable device again. You will hear said relays clicking and sound will return to all channels.
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You can use this app https://maxedtech.com/xonar-driver-restart-application/ Or even this https://maxedtech.com/download/xonar_relay_restart_v0-1/ To do it faster.

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Quick fix, or let's say, the only real fix:

  • install UNi Xonar UNi-Xonar-STXII-11.5-v1.80b-r3 with Windows rebooted and driver signature disabled.
  • at instalation use Run driver cleaner + C-Media with GX enabled + reenable Stereo upmix. Install the driver and restart.
  • go to C-Media Panel and choose 4 channel speakers at analog output. Disable any dDSP enchantments, not needed, like Xear 3d.
  • move your speaker cable from the 2nd hole, to the third.
  • now your issue should be fixed. I love this cheap audio card and it's a shame no one found this fix until now.
  • I was tired of restart the audio service over and over and over again.

PS. I also feel that sound sounds "better and cleaner" on this third hole.

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If anyone gets this problem. Install alternative drivers: MaxedTech UniXonar. It has solved the problem in my case (Windows 10 v.22H2).

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