No digital audio output with Asus Xonar DG

I've purchased an Asus Xonar DG as replacement for faulty onboard audio in a Medion 8822 as it has an optical output which is all I really need to feed my HTPC.

I uninstalled the previous drivers/devices, switched the PC off, inserted the Asus card, powered up, disabled the onboard audio in the BIOS, then installed the driver that came on the CD (same version as on Asus' website as of today) and everything went perfectly - no errors.

I set the audio devices up in Windows and in the Asus utility (SPDIF enabled, 6-ch audio) as I would expect to see them work, but the only thing is I have no digital audio from test tones within Windows/the Asus utility, PCM audio or Dolby Digital from DVD. Analogue audio is fine.

I've uninstalled things and reinstalled a couple of times now, as well as trying almost all combinations of analogue/digital outputs but can't get it sorted.

Does anyone have any tips on how to get this working? This card has just been released so there isn't much out there to go on.

Notes:

• The light on the toslink port is lit.
• OS is Vista 32-bit SP2 and all up to date, pretty much a fresh install with almost no 3rd party applications installed
• This page seems to suggest that a digital output device in Windows is not needed with Xonar cards as it was with the previous Realtek so I have it set to Analog. The only other output device is S/PDIF pass-thru

Had the same issue, solved it;

In the Xonar Audio Center, under 'Main', make sure SPDIF Out is TICKED and PCM is selected.

Hope this helps.

I had no digital signal but got spdif pass through activated and a peak while playing music or audio. I then opened the DG audio center. In the main area I clicked on "spdif off" located beneath this dropdown menu. After a second I got sound back.

I had a Xonar DG with Logitech z5500.