Re: Help with A8N-SLI Premium audio



On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 00:33:59 GMT, milleron
<millerdot90@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>mobo: A8N-SLI Premium, BIOS 1004 (onboard sound enabled in BIOS)
>3500+ Venice
>1 GB Corsair 1024-3200C2PT
>
>I built my computer in June and had NO trouble whatsoever, getting
>onboard audio to work. A couple of days ago, I got a "no-system-disk"
>error. (It seems to have resulted from a BIOS setting that somehow
>changed the order of my SATA HDs, but I never entered BIOS -- details
>to anyone interested). I didn't discover that until after I tried to
>restore C: from a True Image 8 backup which turned out to be corrupt.
>It appeared that all was lost, so I reinstalled Windows and started
>over. This was not a very big deal because all my data and programs
>are on a different drive, but I couldn't get onboard audio to work
>after the reinstall.
>I installed the AMD processor driver and the nForce chipset drivers.
>I installed a couple of different versions of the ALC850 driver (the
>latest from Asus and the latest WDM driver from Realtek) and software,
>and the AC '97 device showed up in Device Manager where it was said to
>be "working properly," but I could never get any sound device to be
>recognized in Control Panel/Sounds or by any sound application. I
>uninstalled the device and allowed it to be redetected a few times --
>no joy.
>
>I ended up restoring a valid Ghost image that was 14 weeks old, and
>sound works in the restored installation, but I'm wondering if anyone
>else had trouble getting this device to work (a Google search turned
>up only one unanswered post). I had no problem the first time in
>June, but insurmountable trouble now.
>
>I wracked my brain for two days, but I can't figure out what I did
>wrong or what I did differently from the first time.
>
>
Worked straight-out-of-the-box for me following a motherboard upgrade
and Windows XP repair install.

Peter Finney
Liphook
Hampshire
England
.



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