Re: Help with A8N-SLI Premium audio
- From: "Homer J. Simpson" <hjsimpson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 01:17:41 GMT
"milleron" <millerdot90@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 03:43:18 GMT, "Homer J. Simpson"
> <hjsimpson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>"milleron" <millerdot90@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> Ron
>>
>>The only driver that is required to get the audio working on this
>>motherboard is the nVIDIA nForce Audio Driver that you can get from
>>nVIDIA's download site. The latest version is 4.62 released back on
>>August
>>23, 2005. This audio driver is also included in the nForce4 AMD Platform
>>drivers, latest version is 6.70 released on October 26, 2005.
>>
>>I have found that I did not need to use the Realtek drivers on this
>>motherboard.
>>
> Yes, that does work. I fell back on it, but I'm still wondering why
> the Realtek drivers don't work. Some have said that the sound is
> better with them, and I know that many, many users install only the
> Realek version. It's a mystery to me why I can't make it work.
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
>
> Ron
I just downloaded version A3.78 of the Realtek AC'97 WDM Audio CODEC from
Realtek's web site and installed it. It works fine for me.
This driver version was posted on October 17, 2005.
.
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