# VCI-400 EGE Sound card shit the bed. Can it be replaced?

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**Category:** DJ TechTools' VCI-400SE Product Support\
**Created:** [January 5, 2015, 6:54pm UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/vci-400-ege-sound-card-shit-the-bed-can-it-be-replaced/69662 "2015-01-05T18:54:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![PsyEntz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/df788c/32.png) [@PsyEntz](https://forum.djtechtools.com/u/PsyEntz)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2015, 6:54pm UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/vci-400-ege-sound-card-shit-the-bed-can-it-be-replaced/69662/1 "2015-01-05T18:54:30Z")

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**VCI-400 EGE Sound card shit the bed. Can it be replaced?**

So, I’ve had my vci400 for like 4 years and everything has working been pretty well with the occasional replacement of volume faders. I was jamming one night last week on Traktor, shut everything down. Then when I tried in the morning, I selected the vci400 as my soundcard and NO AUDIO. Nothing. From anywhere. The midi functions still work just fine. For my gigs I have been using an external sound card (MOTU Microbook) which works well, but I’d prefer to have an internal soundcard in my controller.

Could I possibly have fried it by having my hardware synth (Arturia Minibrute) going into one of the inputs on the vci400? Has this ever happened to anyone before? From everything that I researched, I found that it was safe to plug directly in (and I monitor my levels appropriately).

Is there any hope for being able to install a new hardware soundcard in the controller if this is indeed the problem?

Thanks for your time.

-Nicholas

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**Author:** ![Hi\_Im\_Shy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.djtechtools.com/hi_im_shy/32/12969_2.png) [@Hi\_Im\_Shy](https://forum.djtechtools.com/u/Hi_Im_Shy)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2015, 4:40pm UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/vci-400-ege-sound-card-shit-the-bed-can-it-be-replaced/69662/2 "2015-01-08T16:40:47Z")

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I have a VCI-400 non EGE and have never had a problem with the sound-card. It’s weird to me that everything still functions but sound output. Have you tried a different computer? Can you still get output on the monitor/headphone channel? XLR’s? TRS’s?