#Sound blaster recon 3d not working drivers#

I assume this is an issue with Windows 10, so I checked their website for new drivers for Windows 10 - they plan to release the new drivers this month - and I just can't wait on that. This was on the old software, so I tried it on the new one, same result. I clicked the upgrade button, and the software crashed. The sound was gone too, so I ran the firmware software - that was always enough to make the lights turn on, so they turned on - but to make the sound turn on, you had to actually click the upgrade and go through with it. I rebooted the PC like you do with the FW trick, and then I noticed the lights didn't come on again - like they always did before. I installed a new graphics card today, it still worked. I had upgraded to Windows 10 on the day it came out, and there were no issues - I used the firmware trick, whatever, fine. Today, the firmware trick stopped working, as well as the firmware installers - all of them. I figured it wasn't all that bad, I mean it was just a few clicks and a restart - so I just dealt with it until today. and the exact same issue started happening again, and I had to do the firmware trick again, every day. So, I contacted Creative and sent them back the headset, I figured I had gotten a faulty one, and they sent me back a refurbished one - with scratches galore everywhere on the headset.īut, I digress, it worked perfectly like new - until a month passed. I was having to redo this firmware business every single day just to get the thing to turn on and work, this went on for a good few months. Until the next day, and the next, and the next, etc. I downloaded an older firmware, installed it, downloaded the newest one, installed it, restarting the pc - and it worked fine after that.

I looked online, found a solution that worked for me on this website. After about 2 months of normal use, the actual sound card/sound blaster just stopped powering on whenever the PC was turned on. I've had issues pretty consistently with this device since purchasing it in December last year.

Sound blaster recon 3d not working