Re: No Audio on KV8-X

fybar wrote:
Paul <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:fivoq6$spl$1@xxxxxxxx:

fybar wrote:
In Sounds and Audio devices in the Control Panel I have SoundMAX
Digital Audio as the only device. There is a SPDIF jack on the back
of my PC, connected to the motherboard, but there are also the usual
microphone and speaker jacks all on the motherboard. I want to use
normal computer speakers at the moment. It seems as though the
driver doesn't recognise or is not installed for this. I have the
SoundMax control panel available in my system tray and don't see
anything there to enable other jacks or choose a non-digital output
or input.

I am running XP Home Version 2002 with SP2. No other sound cards are
installed. I went here and found some drivers:

http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us

I tried a couple but I still don't see any other audio device.

Any help would be apprciated.

fybar
Do you mean K8V-X ?

http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=14&l3=67&l4=0&model=237
&model
menu=1

This is the driver I'd be interested in. The smwdmVI3.inf file
indicates it is a package intended for some VIA Southbridges, with
AD198x CODEC.

http://dlsvr02.asus.com/pub/ASUS/misc/audio/ad1980/WDM_3663.zip

Does your control panel look like this ? This is an animated GIF, and
should show several of the panels available.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/multimedia/int-sound2/drv5.gif

Paul

Yes, I meant K8V-X. That is the driver that I installed and yes my control panel looks like the gif you sent except I do not have 'General' or 'Microphone' tabs. I only have 'Listening Environment' and 'MIDI Music Synthesiser'. Does this mean that my driver is not installed properly?

I looked in my Bios and didn't see anything that I could enable as audio stuff went. I noticed that my Midi and Game ports were disabled. As I don't see them on the back of my PC I don't expect that to matter.

Any ideas as to why I don't see all for tabs?

Thanks for your reply.

fybar

It means the driver is installed, because otherwise the control
panel would not open. Audio control panels or mixer applications
usually do a check that the driver is present, and will report
an error if it is not there.

It means the install is not complete in some way.

The way I debug some of these things, is to look in the install
folder, for things like INF files. In the SMAXWDM, in W2K_XP,
I can find "smwdmVI3.inf" and that contains lines used to match
on the enumeration of the Soundmax CODEC. That will specify
things to load into the system. For example, I can see a "service"
being loaded, system32\drivers\smwdm.sys , and I'd quickly
verify that such a service is loaded, and the file is present
in the drivers folder.

Is the boot disk, one that was transplanted from another computer ?
Was this a clean install ? Is there another sound card in the
computer already, and its drivers are installed ? Where there any
errors during the install attempt ? Any reported errors in Event
Viewer ?

I've noticed on my current computer, that while I could install
both a separate PCI sound card, and my Soundmax software, at the
same time, that the Microsoft Device Manager entries for selecting
a device to "bind" to audio, didn't work properly. I had to disable
Soundmax, and use just the PCI sound card, and then everything was
fine. (This is in Win2K SP4.)

It almost sounds like "record" and "playback" portions of the
software stack, are not registering properly, and that is why
the tabs are missing. Yet, enough of the driver (that "service")
is present, to fool the control panel into thinking everything is
OK.

I find Windows problems hard to debug, because there is no way
to "look underneath", to see what paths are present or absent.
Sorry I cannot help further.

Paul
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