Cubase killed my Audiophile

[Ominous]

I bought the M-Audio Audiophile 24/96 USB extern soundcard, along with an 8 channel mixing console a few weeks ago.
You all probably know that this soundcard comes with the Ableton Live Lite sequencer. I had expected more from a sequencer so instead I bought Cubase SE 3 and today I installed it. It resulted in a soundcard crash, or something like that. Audiophile stopped working, I had no outgoing sound and no incoming sound, I tried to update the soundcard, which gave me a ironically low, noisy, hard-to-hear, sound in the right speaker.
But when I tried to fix it, the soundcard stopped working again.

I don't know what to do.
I know nothing about these things. So please, if anyone knows what to do.
Answer here, or mail me at johan@umbasa.se

Johan//

[David Muniz]

Does the sound card work with other software, like iTunes or Media Player?

IT's rare that installing cubase or other software would ruin the Audio interface. It could be another problem that was lurking all along, and has, coincidentally, reared it's head now.

Can you provide more info about your computer?

[phalaris]

The tweeters aren't damaged in any way after the incident, are they?

This might be a longshot, but if you send an SPDIF signal into analogue inputs it can seriously fry your speakers. Perhaps that't what happened to your sound card..

[Ominous]

No, it stopped working, no outgoing sound at all.

But I uninstalled everything, installed it again, uninstalled it, unplugged the soundcard, plugged it in, and installed it. And now it's working.

Is it common for cubase to overwrite important files for a sound card?