still no sound from A8N board..

sittingduck <spam.no.sitting-duck.DeleteThis@spamgourmet.com> wrote in
news:Xns9759680FB11CFduckrulestheuniverse@news.easynews.com:

> Peacock wrote:
>
>> I tried all the abvious, got the latest Realtek AC 97 drivers, checked
>> everything I could think off so all the devices are working correctly
>> according to XP (...).
>
> Is it turned on in the BIOS?

Yes it is, I didn't understand the meaning of instant sound (it was off at
first) but that doens't make a difference
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Peacock skrev:
> Hi,
>
> I'm starting to be lost, I bought an new PC , A8N 2Gb, 2 IDE disk (no
> sata), asus 6600 256Mb silence card, tv-card, XP Home SP2.
>
> Everything is working fine except there is no sound.
>
> I tried all the abvious, got the latest Realtek AC 97 drivers, checked
> everything I could think off so all the devices are working correctly
> according to XP (...).
> Volume is on, boxes are connected to the colors lime (green), black and
> orange, power is on, no hardware conflicts, etc.
> In volume I also checked the speaker volume, in advanced the option to
> choose 5.1 or 7.1 etc. So far nothing.
>
> There is software with the mobo (asus sound effect) with connection
> sensing.
> The 3 not used colors on the soundcard get "not connected" and the other
> 3 get "unknown"
>
> At first I had the AC 97 on the same IRQ (21) as the standard dual
> channel PCI IDE controller so I disabled that one.
>
> I am allmost at the point of thinking something is broken..........
>
> Can someone help? I'm definitly not the first one to buy this board and
> want to hear music from the onboard sound card....
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Wijbrand
>

hi

got an a8n-sli premium and have only loaded nforce plattform drivers (8.22) not any asus
thing. irq 21 was shared on my comp also but i had no ill effects from that!

take out tv-card! and do only use green sound plug until you know if it's working (just 2
channel sound).

coco
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CoCo <cocotmREMOVEremove.TakeThisOut@telia.com> wrote in
news:gFOCf.154764$dP1.513101@newsc.telia.net:

> Peacock skrev:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm starting to be lost, I bought an new PC , A8N 2Gb, 2 IDE disk (no
>> sata), asus 6600 256Mb silence card, tv-card, XP Home SP2.
>>
>> Everything is working fine except there is no sound.
>>
>> I tried all the abvious, got the latest Realtek AC 97 drivers,
>> checked everything I could think off so all the devices are working
>> correctly according to XP (...).
>> Volume is on, boxes are connected to the colors lime (green), black
>> and orange, power is on, no hardware conflicts, etc.
>> In volume I also checked the speaker volume, in advanced the option
>> to choose 5.1 or 7.1 etc. So far nothing.
>>
>> There is software with the mobo (asus sound effect) with connection
>> sensing.
>> The 3 not used colors on the soundcard get "not connected" and the
>> other 3 get "unknown"
>>
>> At first I had the AC 97 on the same IRQ (21) as the standard dual
>> channel PCI IDE controller so I disabled that one.
>>
>> I am allmost at the point of thinking something is broken..........
>>
>> Can someone help? I'm definitly not the first one to buy this board
>> and want to hear music from the onboard sound card....
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> Wijbrand
>>
>
> hi
>
> got an a8n-sli premium and have only loaded nforce plattform drivers
> (8.22) not any asus thing. irq 21 was shared on my comp also but i had
> no ill effects from that!
>
> take out tv-card! and do only use green sound plug until you know if
> it's working (just 2 channel sound).
>
> coco

did that both, still no sound....
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Peacock skrev:
> CoCo <cocotmREMOVEremove.TakeThisOut@telia.com> wrote in
> news:gFOCf.154764$dP1.513101@newsc.telia.net:
>
>> Peacock skrev:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm starting to be lost, I bought an new PC , A8N 2Gb, 2 IDE disk (no
>>> sata), asus 6600 256Mb silence card, tv-card, XP Home SP2.
>>>
>>> Everything is working fine except there is no sound.
>>>
>>> I tried all the abvious, got the latest Realtek AC 97 drivers,
>>> checked everything I could think off so all the devices are working
>>> correctly according to XP (...).
>>> Volume is on, boxes are connected to the colors lime (green), black
>>> and orange, power is on, no hardware conflicts, etc.
>>> In volume I also checked the speaker volume, in advanced the option
>>> to choose 5.1 or 7.1 etc. So far nothing.
>>>
>>> There is software with the mobo (asus sound effect) with connection
>>> sensing.
>>> The 3 not used colors on the soundcard get "not connected" and the
>>> other 3 get "unknown"
>>>
>>> At first I had the AC 97 on the same IRQ (21) as the standard dual
>>> channel PCI IDE controller so I disabled that one.
>>>
>>> I am allmost at the point of thinking something is broken..........
>>>
>>> Can someone help? I'm definitly not the first one to buy this board
>>> and want to hear music from the onboard sound card....
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>
>>> Wijbrand
>>>
>> hi
>>
>> got an a8n-sli premium and have only loaded nforce plattform drivers
>> (8.22) not any asus thing. irq 21 was shared on my comp also but i had
>> no ill effects from that!
>>
>> take out tv-card! and do only use green sound plug until you know if
>> it's working (just 2 channel sound).
>>
>> coco
>
> did that both, still no sound....

then mb is very likly damaged!! (unless for some dumb reason the sound connector at the mobo
have it's jumpers removed or wrong. there is a 9pin connector with 2 jumpers behind the mb
socket for sound that should be used for front-panel sound connection.)

coco
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CoCo <cocotmREMOVEremove RemoveThis @telia.com> wrote in
news:nMPCf.154768$dP1.513031@newsc.telia.net:

> Peacock skrev:
>> CoCo <cocotmREMOVEremove RemoveThis @telia.com> wrote in
>> news:gFOCf.154764$dP1.513101@newsc.telia.net:
>>
>>> Peacock skrev:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm starting to be lost, I bought an new PC , A8N 2Gb, 2 IDE disk
>>>> (no sata), asus 6600 256Mb silence card, tv-card, XP Home SP2.
>>>>
>>>> Everything is working fine except there is no sound.
>>>>
>>>> I tried all the abvious, got the latest Realtek AC 97 drivers,
>>>> checked everything I could think off so all the devices are working
>>>> correctly according to XP (...).
>>>> Volume is on, boxes are connected to the colors lime (green), black
>>>> and orange, power is on, no hardware conflicts, etc.
>>>> In volume I also checked the speaker volume, in advanced the option
>>>> to choose 5.1 or 7.1 etc. So far nothing.
>>>>
>>>> There is software with the mobo (asus sound effect) with connection
>>>> sensing.
>>>> The 3 not used colors on the soundcard get "not connected" and the
>>>> other 3 get "unknown"
>>>>
>>>> At first I had the AC 97 on the same IRQ (21) as the standard dual
>>>> channel PCI IDE controller so I disabled that one.
>>>>
>>>> I am allmost at the point of thinking something is broken..........
>>>>
>>>> Can someone help? I'm definitly not the first one to buy this board
>>>> and want to hear music from the onboard sound card....
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>>
>>>> Wijbrand
>>>>
>>> hi
>>>
>>> got an a8n-sli premium and have only loaded nforce plattform drivers
>>> (8.22) not any asus thing. irq 21 was shared on my comp also but i
>>> had no ill effects from that!
>>>
>>> take out tv-card! and do only use green sound plug until you know if
>>> it's working (just 2 channel sound).
>>>
>>> coco
>>
>> did that both, still no sound....
>
> then mb is very likly damaged!! (unless for some dumb reason the sound
> connector at the mobo have it's jumpers removed or wrong. there is a
> 9pin connector with 2 jumpers behind the mb socket for sound that
> should be used for front-panel sound connection.)
>
> coco
>

That's it!! They put a connector on this jumper wich says hd-audio, on
the same cable there is also a connector ac 97 and a lot of seperate
little connectors.

Now I get sound from the green plug, the connection sensing sees the
green plug but not the other two.
Shouldn't there be any connectors on the 9 pin connector?
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On 28 Jan 2006 20:15:22 GMT, Peacock <peacock.RemoveThis@xs4all.nl> wrote:

>CoCo <cocotmREMOVEremove.RemoveThis@telia.com> wrote in
>news:nMPCf.154768$dP1.513031@newsc.telia.net:
>
>> Peacock skrev:
>>> CoCo <cocotmREMOVEremove.RemoveThis@telia.com> wrote in
>>> news:gFOCf.154764$dP1.513101@newsc.telia.net:
>>>
>>>> Peacock skrev:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm starting to be lost, I bought an new PC , A8N 2Gb, 2 IDE disk
>>>>> (no sata), asus 6600 256Mb silence card, tv-card, XP Home SP2.
>>>>>
>>>>> Everything is working fine except there is no sound.
>>>>>
>>>>> I tried all the abvious, got the latest Realtek AC 97 drivers,
>>>>> checked everything I could think off so all the devices are working
>>>>> correctly according to XP (...).
>>>>> Volume is on, boxes are connected to the colors lime (green), black
>>>>> and orange, power is on, no hardware conflicts, etc.
>>>>> In volume I also checked the speaker volume, in advanced the option
>>>>> to choose 5.1 or 7.1 etc. So far nothing.
>>>>>
>>>>> There is software with the mobo (asus sound effect) with connection
>>>>> sensing.
>>>>> The 3 not used colors on the soundcard get "not connected" and the
>>>>> other 3 get "unknown"
>>>>>
>>>>> At first I had the AC 97 on the same IRQ (21) as the standard dual
>>>>> channel PCI IDE controller so I disabled that one.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am allmost at the point of thinking something is broken..........
>>>>>
>>>>> Can someone help? I'm definitly not the first one to buy this board
>>>>> and want to hear music from the onboard sound card....
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>>>
>>>>> Wijbrand
>>>>>
>>>> hi
>>>>
>>>> got an a8n-sli premium and have only loaded nforce plattform drivers
>>>> (8.22) not any asus thing. irq 21 was shared on my comp also but i
>>>> had no ill effects from that!
>>>>
>>>> take out tv-card! and do only use green sound plug until you know if
>>>> it's working (just 2 channel sound).
>>>>
>>>> coco
>>>
>>> did that both, still no sound....
>>
>> then mb is very likly damaged!! (unless for some dumb reason the sound
>> connector at the mobo have it's jumpers removed or wrong. there is a
>> 9pin connector with 2 jumpers behind the mb socket for sound that
>> should be used for front-panel sound connection.)
>>
>> coco
>>
>
>That's it!! They put a connector on this jumper wich says hd-audio, on
>the same cable there is also a connector ac 97 and a lot of seperate
>little connectors.
>
>Now I get sound from the green plug, the connection sensing sees the
>green plug but not the other two.
>Shouldn't there be any connectors on the 9 pin connector?

Your explanation here is not very clear. Who is "they?" How does one
"put a connector on a jumper?" By "on the same cable" are you talking
about a cable in your computer case?

Have you connected a cable from your case's front-panel audio to the
motherboard? If so, then it may be that it's not an Intel-standard
cable and it could be blocking output to your rear-panel jacks. For
troubleshooting purposes, remove it and replace the jumpers to their
factory-default positions (see your manual).

If you have not connected the case's audio-port cable, then there are
supposed to be TWO jumpers on the motherboard's 9-pin audio
connectors. Your manual will show you where they're supposed to be
placed. If they're not installed, the rear-panel jacks will receive
no signal. (One affects the microphone connection and the other, the
audio output, but if you're not an engineer, it's difficult to know
which is which. Just be sure that both are installed per the manual,
and if your motherboard's not bad, it should work.)

Do you have any unknown devices in Hardware manager?

I have an A8N-SLI Premium on which I couldn't get sound using the
proper Realtek drivers, but I DID have unknown devices after
installing them. My sound worked perfectly, however, after installing
the nForce platform drivers and opting to include the sound drivers
and applets that are part of that package. You might try that.

Ron
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milleron <millerdot90.DeleteThis@SPAMLESSosu.edu> wrote in
news:k3unt1tuba25e6cftfauncp7ff75vgtojb@4ax.com:
>>
>>That's it!! They put a connector on this jumper wich says hd-audio, on
>>the same cable there is also a connector ac 97 and a lot of seperate
>>little connectors.
>>
>>Now I get sound from the green plug, the connection sensing sees the
>>green plug but not the other two.
>>Shouldn't there be any connectors on the 9 pin connector?
>
> Your explanation here is not very clear. Who is "they?" How does one
> "put a connector on a jumper?" By "on the same cable" are you talking
> about a cable in your computer case?

I bought the computer a week ago. The guy who assembled the computer put
the wrong connector on the MB. My computer english (delete computer if
true..) isn't so good, sorry. I ment to say that there is a cable coming
from the computer speaker with multiple connectors, two 9 pins (one with
HD souns and one with AC 97) and a lot of single connectors.
When I opened the comupter this week I saw that and was a bit surprised
that they did this so clumsy but I didn't connect the sound problem with
the cables because they said that everything was working ok...
>
> Have you connected a cable from your case's front-panel audio to the
> motherboard? If so, then it may be that it's not an Intel-standard
> cable and it could be blocking output to your rear-panel jacks. For
> troubleshooting purposes, remove it and replace the jumpers to their
> factory-default positions (see your manual).

It's a logitech x-530. It has a sub woofer case (connected to the
current). There is one speaker with two cables, one goes to the woofer
(with a vga like conector) and a cable with 3 coax connectors who should
be on the soundcard. They have different colors, green (lime), black and
orange. According to the instructions they should be on the same colored
coaxes of the MB. I also checked this in the manual of the MB, the only
difference was that they call it lime instead of green.

>
> If you have not connected the case's audio-port cable, then there are
> supposed to be TWO jumpers on the motherboard's 9-pin audio
> connectors. Your manual will show you where they're supposed to be
> placed. If they're not installed, the rear-panel jacks will receive
> no signal. (One affects the microphone connection and the other, the
> audio output, but if you're not an engineer, it's difficult to know
> which is which. Just be sure that both are installed per the manual,
> and if your motherboard's not bad, it should work.)

The manual of the MB doesnt talk about jumpers, there are four
connectors near the sound plugs, one called FP_AUDIO (this is the 9
pins), a PWR_FAN (6 pins) a AUX (4) and a CD (4). there is nothing
jumpered as far as I can see.
>
> Do you have any unknown devices in Hardware manager?

At first yes, I din't install the TV card because I don't have a
incoming TV cable in the study at this moment. Yesterday I installed it,
no conflict. After the suggestion of Coco I removed it from the
computer.
>
> I have an A8N-SLI Premium on which I couldn't get sound using the
> proper Realtek drivers, but I DID have unknown devices after
> installing them. My sound worked perfectly, however, after installing
> the nForce platform drivers and opting to include the sound drivers
> and applets that are part of that package. You might try that.

I tried that in the beginning, I installed everything form the nForce CD
but the guy from the computeshop warned me about the nForce IDE drivers.
They are buggy he said so I should use the Windows driver. After that I
installed XP again and downloaded the newest Realtek drivers (26-1-06).

I am one step further at this moment. I get sound from 4 speaker (front
center speaker, sub woofer, two rearspeaker) but not the two front
speakers. I tried to switch the 3 colored coax plugs on the MB in all
possible connections but without succes.

Again i'm lost, don't know what to try further. I'm very glad that I
have sound on 4 speakers but I din't buy 6 to hear from 4....

Any suggestions?

Wijbrand

>
> Ron
>
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Peacock skrev:
> milleron <millerdot90.DeleteThis@SPAMLESSosu.edu> wrote in
> news:k3unt1tuba25e6cftfauncp7ff75vgtojb@4ax.com:
>>> That's it!! They put a connector on this jumper wich says hd-audio, on
>>> the same cable there is also a connector ac 97 and a lot of seperate
>>> little connectors.
>>>
>>> Now I get sound from the green plug, the connection sensing sees the
>>> green plug but not the other two.
>>> Shouldn't there be any connectors on the 9 pin connector?
>> Your explanation here is not very clear. Who is "they?" How does one
>> "put a connector on a jumper?" By "on the same cable" are you talking
>> about a cable in your computer case?
>
> I bought the computer a week ago. The guy who assembled the computer put
> the wrong connector on the MB. My computer english (delete computer if
> true..) isn't so good, sorry. I ment to say that there is a cable coming
> from the computer speaker with multiple connectors, two 9 pins (one with
> HD souns and one with AC 97) and a lot of single connectors.
> When I opened the comupter this week I saw that and was a bit surprised
> that they did this so clumsy but I didn't connect the sound problem with
> the cables because they said that everything was working ok...
>> Have you connected a cable from your case's front-panel audio to the
>> motherboard? If so, then it may be that it's not an Intel-standard
>> cable and it could be blocking output to your rear-panel jacks. For
>> troubleshooting purposes, remove it and replace the jumpers to their
>> factory-default positions (see your manual).
>
> It's a logitech x-530. It has a sub woofer case (connected to the
> current). There is one speaker with two cables, one goes to the woofer
> (with a vga like conector) and a cable with 3 coax connectors who should
> be on the soundcard. They have different colors, green (lime), black and
> orange. According to the instructions they should be on the same colored
> coaxes of the MB. I also checked this in the manual of the MB, the only
> difference was that they call it lime instead of green.
>
>> If you have not connected the case's audio-port cable, then there are
>> supposed to be TWO jumpers on the motherboard's 9-pin audio
>> connectors. Your manual will show you where they're supposed to be
>> placed. If they're not installed, the rear-panel jacks will receive
>> no signal. (One affects the microphone connection and the other, the
>> audio output, but if you're not an engineer, it's difficult to know
>> which is which. Just be sure that both are installed per the manual,
>> and if your motherboard's not bad, it should work.)
>
> The manual of the MB doesnt talk about jumpers, there are four
> connectors near the sound plugs, one called FP_AUDIO (this is the 9
> pins), a PWR_FAN (6 pins) a AUX (4) and a CD (4). there is nothing
> jumpered as far as I can see.
>> Do you have any unknown devices in Hardware manager?
>
> At first yes, I din't install the TV card because I don't have a
> incoming TV cable in the study at this moment. Yesterday I installed it,
> no conflict. After the suggestion of Coco I removed it from the
> computer.
>> I have an A8N-SLI Premium on which I couldn't get sound using the
>> proper Realtek drivers, but I DID have unknown devices after
>> installing them. My sound worked perfectly, however, after installing
>> the nForce platform drivers and opting to include the sound drivers
>> and applets that are part of that package. You might try that.
>
> I tried that in the beginning, I installed everything form the nForce CD
> but the guy from the computeshop warned me about the nForce IDE drivers.
> They are buggy he said so I should use the Windows driver. After that I
> installed XP again and downloaded the newest Realtek drivers (26-1-06).
>
> I am one step further at this moment. I get sound from 4 speaker (front
> center speaker, sub woofer, two rearspeaker) but not the two front
> speakers. I tried to switch the 3 colored coax plugs on the MB in all
> possible connections but without succes.
>
> Again i'm lost, don't know what to try further. I'm very glad that I
> have sound on 4 speakers but I din't buy 6 to hear from 4....
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Wijbrand
>
>> Ron
>>
>

hi

if you have sound in any speaker now, and you have, then it's only the cable going from mb
sound socket to the speahers that can be wrong! this mb use ac97 system and you must use
that cable...

to test if all ok: disconnect all cables going to the 9pin mb sound socket and put back the
TWO jumpers (typical green small things) on the RIGHT possition! then use the normal
backside sound jacks.

Jumpers possition: (a8n-sli) is the toppmost and the third! or like this...

pin - pin <- jumper here
nc - pin
pin - pin <- and here!
pin - pin
pin - pin

page 2-29 in mb bocklet.

coco
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Hi,

I'm having a similar problem as Peacock. I have the cable from the
front panel of the case (coolermaster centurion 5) connected to the
fp_audio plug on the motherboard (a8n-sli). I don't get any sound with
it set up like this - from the speakers plugged into the green output
on the back of the mobo, or from the headphone plug on the front of the
case. I am using the realtek drivers that shipped with the motherboard.
Shouldn't the speakers still work with this plug in place? Like
peacock's case, mine has a cable with a 9 pin plug marked ac97, one
marked hd audio, and a series of loose 1-pin connectors. These are all
on the end of the same cable. I'm going to try removing this ac97 plug
and re-installing the jumpers tonight, but I would still ike to be able
to use the front panel jacks. Is this possible?

kb
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