Re: Help with A8N-SLI Premium audio
- From: milleron <millerdot90@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:52:27 GMT
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 01:17:41 GMT, "Homer J. Simpson"
<hjsimpson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>"milleron" <millerdot90@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:mkjam1t8fmonfotb369238aa2alk76f3bg@xxxxxxxxxx
>> On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 03:43:18 GMT, "Homer J. Simpson"
>> <hjsimpson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>"milleron" <millerdot90@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>>news:j5d5m19idbklnhugr5f40uq1j3b300kqi1@xxxxxxxxxx
>>>> 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.
>
That's one of the two new drivers I used -- no joy. Clearly my
hardware and motherboard are fine because sound works great on the
setup I'm using now (restored the entire installation from a Ghost
image from July).
Ron
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