Front Panel on Audigy 2 ZS Plati

Hi.
I have a SBAudigy 2 ZS Platinum, and just a few days ago, my front panel stopped working. I made no hardware changes or driver changes, it just stopped working. None of the inputs work, the optical lights arent on, the remote won't work. In the mixer, all the entries for the front panel inputs are absent, and the only ones that are there are the ones for the card inputs and system sound settings. Is the IDE Cable bad? Any help?

Yes, I've checked and checked and checked. The firewire isnt neccessary, so it is only 2 cables to check. I even flipped the ribbon cable around (card to platinum dri've, vice versa) and even used another 4pin mini power connector that was connected to my floppy dri've. I just gave up last night and almost ripped out the unit to return, but I was getting sleeping. Well, tonight when I got back to my system, rebooted b/c I needed to swap out a hard dri've, the sound came BACK. WFT?
Anybody else get same problems with their platinum dri've?

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