Installation and Usage Guide of The New Generic USB DAC Driver For FiiO Players
Installation and Usage Guide of The New Generic USB DAC Driver For FiiO Players
Installation and Usage Guide of The New Generic USB DAC Driver For FiiO Players
new generic USB DAC driver for our players that have DAC function. Now with just
one installation of the new driver, you will be able to connect different models of
The new driver has also been implemented with new icons and interface. And
below are the detailed instructions of the installation and usage (We will use the
(Note: The driver can be installed directly on Windows 8/8.1/10. But for some
versions of Windows 7 you may need to first disable the driver signature
enforcement before the installation. If you are using Windows 7, please see the
1. Update the X7 to the latest version of firmware, then switch the USB mode from
"Storage" to "USB DAC"in the pull-down menu (On other players, please switch
http://fiio.net/en/supports, then unzip the package and double click to run the
"FiiO_USB_DAC_Driver)Setup_v3.34.0.exe" .
4. At the Welcome page, click "Next". If the player is connected successfully the
application will enter the Choose Install Location page as in Step 5. If not, please
5. At the Choose Install Location page, Click "Install" to start the installation (it's
notice. If it appears, please simply click "Install this driver software anyway" to
continue. (This would happen because that some versions of Windows 7 might
not support the type of driver signature that we use. But on Windows 8/8.1/10,
Special notice:
The driver program will generally do some sensitive operations on the Windows system, such as
modifying the I/O configuration and Windows registry. For a few anti-virus softwares (e.g.
Virustotal), they may automatically prohibit the driver from doing these operations or
mistakenly recognize the program as a malware. If that happens, please kindly set the anti-virus
software to trust the driver setup program and allow its operations. There's no need to worry
about the safety issues regarding to our driver program, but it's highly suggested to always
download the driver package from our official website: http://fiio.net/en/supports
7. At the Complete page, click "Next" then "Finish" to complete the isntallation.
8. After the installation completes successfully, you can find the X7 listed under
(In this tutorial, we will be using the X7 and foobar2000 as an example of using the
1. After the X7 is connected successfully to the computer as DAC, you will find a
"FiiO Control Panel" icon displayed in the notification area at the bottom right
2. Right click the Sound icon in the notification area, then click "Playback devices".
3. In the Sound panel, select the X7, click "Set default" then click OK to set the X7
5. Under the "Output" category, select the X7 from the Device list then click OK.
After the above operations, you can plug your headphone to the X7 and start to
For some versions of Windows 7, it cannot properly recognize the type of driver
signature that we use and will cause the installation to fail. So you need to disable
(But if it still fails after disabling the driver signature enforcement, you may also
need to update your system. In that case, please check Appendix II).
Method 1
1. Press the Winows key + R on the keyboard to open the Run box, then enter
area, double click the "Code signing for device drivers" option (Or right click
and click OK. After that the driver signature enforcement will be disabled.
4. For safety, it's recommended to enable the driver signature enforcement again
Method 2:
select "Run as administrator". Or you can search for it using the Search box.
2. Enter the below command in the cmd menu. (You may also try to copy the
command then right click on the cmd menu, select Paste and press the Enter key).
bcdedit.exe -set loadoptions DISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS
3. If the cmd shows the prompt "The operation completed successfully", then it
4. For safety, it's recommended to enable the driver signature enforcement with
Our driver package is signed with a SHA256 certificate. Windows 8 and 10 accept
You will get it through Windows update or you can be downloaded here:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=46148
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3033929
Windows 7 only accepts SHA1 certificates by default. But SHA1 certificates are
deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. You also don't get new SHA1
Please update your Windows 7 systems and try again installing the driver.