Re: A8N SLI Premium - No Onboard Audio

On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 03:05:58 GMT, john.dsl@xxxxxxxxxxx (John Lewis)
wrote:

>On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 14:40:05 GMT, "blitzen9x" <blitzen9x@xxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>
>>Well....
>>A8N SLI Premium, AMD Athlon64 4000+, Maxtor 200 gig SATA 150 HDD, Powercolor X850XT, 1 gig Corsair RAM,
>>CoolerMaster Centurion Case, Antec II 550W PS, Windows XP.
>>
>>Got this baby together and I have no sound.
>>
>>Drivers are installed, even went to Asus site, downloaded and installed latest Realtek ALC850 Driver
>>V5.10.0.5870 for Windows 2000/XP. Bios is updated to ver. 1009. Nothing turned off/down or muted in
>>software; checked bios and AC'97 is enabled. Everything else appears to work with no problems. Hmmmm....
>>
>>Speakers are good, can move them to another computer and connect up, they work just fine. But when I hook up
>>to this computer, I've got nothing. Not a peep. I am stumped. I feel like perhaps it is something with the
>>hardware, maybe I didn't do something right when I assembled it?
>>
>>I do have front panel audio hooked up on the case; this required removing 2 factory-installed jumpers from the
>>FP_Audio Connector (#13 - page 2-29 in user manual) to plug in the cable on the FP_Audio connector.
>>
>>Anyone else have this problem, or anything similar?
>>
>>Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>>
>
>(a) make sure that on-board audio is enabled in BIOS ( 'Auto'--- if no
>other sound-card present --- or 'Enabled' if that option is
>available )
>
>(b) did you check that the audio worked at the rear-panel before
>using front-panel ? Replace the jumpers in the CORRECT positions
>and try the rear.
>
>John Lewis

I did have this trouble even though using a true Intel-standard
front-panel audio cable. When I built my computer in June, the
onboard sound worked after installing the Realtek drivers and
software, but when I had to reinstall Windows a few months later, I
couldn't get an audio device recognized in Device Manager or in the
Sounds applet in Control Panel. Nothing would work but installing the
audio portion of the nForce drivers. Assuming that there's no problem
with the front-panel cable on OP's setup, my recommendation would be
to run the setup program for the nForce4 chipset and allow the audio
portions of that driver to be installed. That's the only thing that
got my onboard audio working again.

Ron
.

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