I was just toggling my ZDAC from USB to Coax and it died.
The green light is on but nothing is coming out. I've toggled it back to USB, nothing, toslink, nothing. Powered down and back up, nothing.
I hear something clicking inside when I change the switches but no sound. Other than thinking that the computer let it's deamons loose inside of my dac, I'm at a loss of what to do.
I will try a hard shutdown and check fuses but with the green light on I doubt that it is a power issue.
Film at 11:00!

I shut it down, unplugged it, checked the fuse, unhooked everything from it. Reconnected everything and turned it back on. Nothing but a quiet clicking from inside the box. It sounds like a road trip to E. Peoria is in my future. I'll tell my boss that I have a vendor visit in Peoria and get paid to drive up there and back.

Donnie, I can't tell from your post if you have something hooked up via toslink or coax????? But if it is just the USB that is wired, it may be a simple computer thing. The clicking is probably just the DAC trying to switch to USB. I don't know Windows, but is there a system sound control panel or something like that, or some other system audio or sound panel where you can choose output paths? On my Mac, this happened once with my ZDAC and going to the system sound preference, internal speakers was highlighted. I clicked on USB and all was well. The computer had mysteriously switched to internal speakers, and not automatically connected to the USB out for some reason. It only happened the one time. Never since.

I hope this is it. Good Luck!

Ouch! Sorry to hear that.

I feel your pain Donnie! That does seem too long! Here's a sincere hope you have it very soon!

I understand the problems with niche market businesses. I have friends that supply motorcycle trials products, that market makes tube amps look huge. They grow quickly, reach saturation and soon fail. For Decware to last as long as they have shows me that they have a good business plan, but sometimes things get out of control. I just hate being the person that the business plan fails on. I'm sure that their main problem is that they don't have enough volume with their supplyers to have any clout. Bigger is better when you need something.

Steve, Thanks for the explanation. Believe it or not this is the second thing that I have had affected today from the earthquake in Japan. You don't have any parts laying around for a Mitsubishi Hobbing machine do you? I just thought I would ask, you never know. Like I said before, I'm not mad at all, if I was there would be a dead body in your trunk and the police would be coming around the corner, LOL.
I'll just sit here and wait for the day that I can listen to James McMurtry songs at the volume that they deserve. Thanks again for making all of these great toys for a semi- grown up 50 year old child. You have no idea of how happy you have made me in the last few months.

Awesome Donnie! Really happy for you!