Even my keyboard can control the windows volume!

Now it's not even registering when my head phones are plugged in, I just get some weird static background and the speakers stay on.

Hey Killer, I'd already planned to return the card lol.

I've given up on the control boxes and just ordered a headphone extentsion lead and moved my speakers around so I can control the volume with ease (was a nightmare to do this move, which is why I wanted to be able to control with the box).

I'm currently looking at those and possibly (foolishly?) the STX.

I used to have a really cool volume knob on the front of my computer when I was using the Creative X-Fi, X-Fi 2, Recon 3D. The best thing was that it controled both speakers and headphones, since both showed up as ONE device, the driver decided where the sound sent to that device would go.
But since the first 2 are out of production and the 3rd one has bad channel switching problems, I decided to go for a Phoebus Solo.
Now I control the volume with the wheel on my keyboard, but it's just not the same. I wished there was something to put in my Pcs front panels to control the System volume.

I am also still looking for a way to use voice communication with this sound card without helicopter sounds and better noise reduction. At the moment I am using a Zalman mic plugged to the soundcard in my keyboard instead of the Phoebus ... the keyboard produces less background noises than the expensive soundcard. Way to go, Asus.