Thanks! I had 'show disabled devices' deselected so I didn't see it as an option. What surprised me was that light shined through the cable even while spdif was disabled, but produced no sound. Is the light a transport medium for data or is light the data? I have no idea how that works.
spdif from win 7 laptop to rega dac. No sound.
Not sure if this is the right forum for this. Anyway. Laptop running win 7 running spdif out (mini toslink) to optical on Rega dac. I'm not getting any sound. If I use the Rega dac's usb input I'm fine. I'm aware of Hiface or v-link--that's my next step if this doesn't work. Anyone troubleshooted this problem?