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Windows 7 can't handle external sound cards!!
This is very strange. I've been working with windows 7 since 2014, prior to that i was using a macbook pro. But somewhere along the way I noticed that my m-audio fast track pro had drivers issues. It would disconnect itself suddenly, or it would sound distorted or the system wouldn't recognize it. But that was something that happened randomly. A few days ago I bought a pci usb 3 card, and my system wouldn't recognize it. The person who sold it to me told me that it was a problem with my windows 7 version, that I needed to reinstall windows or run windows update. So I updated it, and ever since that day the sound card would do all the things i wrote about, but all the time, until I couldn't use it anymore. The sound gets distorted, or sounds choppy, or doesn't sound at all, you name it. I thought as the fast track pro has been discontinued, maybe the drivers wouln't work properly, so I bought a Focusrite Scarlett 2i4, but I found I have more or less the same problems. Maybe not as constant as the fast track pro, but it's more or less the same. I've searched for viruses, nothing. Checked if my drives are in good health, top notch, uninstalled unnecesary software, problem persists, I checked cpu temperature and it seems to be fine. The only conclusion I came up with is that is must be a compatibility problem with windows 7 or some of the things it updated, but I'm not really sure. I really don't understand much about this. The only thing I know for sure is that I have to switch back to mac as soon as I can. ANY IDEAS??? I need the computer for my work, I'm kind of desperate here..