Now this is great news folks! I just managed to get my Apogee Mini-DAC to work with Windows 7. Apogee no longer develops drivers for windows, so a lot of folks like myself got left out to dry when Vista emerged. Only windows XP drivers existed for the Mini-DAC. I do most of my stuff in Ubuntu, and everything works just nicely there. However my PC gaming still takes place under windows – that faced me with a big problem until Windows 7.

This is how you do it:

Download the USB Audio ASIO Driver, ie. from CNet (USB Audio ASIO Driver 2.8.15) - oh and if memory serves it looks an awful lot like the Apogee installation once you get it going.

Unpack it, and run the setup.exe

Follow the instructions, unplug when it says so and reconnect.

During the installation I received a pop up from windows telling me that the drivers did not successfully install (really? that never happened before)

After that the driver did not work, however if you open the device manager, you will see an expanded tree where the audio device sticks out with a yellow icon. Click it and choose to update the driver, select the location manually and point to the directory where you unpacked the ASIO drivers – confirm, and BINGO! – well reboot then BINGO!!!

Well I guess I am off to play the Star Wars soundtrack….