ASUS A8R-MVP motherboard

comp builder · 10 Jun 2006 at 09:54

hi i brought a ASUS A8R-MVP motherboard from ocuk about a week ago and it had on board sound problems (the drivers wouldnt install) so i sent it back for testing and they told me the on board sound was knackered so they gave me a new one. So i came home and put it in and everything works fine (ethernet drivers etc) apart from the damn on board sound.
Anyway i was wondering if anyone else has got this motherboard and had the same problems. i might take it back and exchange it for a new board but i tried here first because its a pain to take apart (well it isnt really im just too lazy to do it

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if i did decide to exchange it then what mobo would be compatible with a AMD 64 3200+ cpu and ASUS EAX1300PRO graphics card
ASUS A8R-MVP motherboard (one down)
ASUS EAX1300PRO graphics card (top one)
thanks

Mikey1280 · 10 Jun 2006 at 10:40

So this is two of two times that the onboard sound hasnt worked right? It sounds like you're doing something wrong tbh. Have you got the jumpers set correctly?

squiffy · 10 Jun 2006 at 10:57

Possible your cable/amp/speakers are shorted out and frying the motherboard sound chip?

LoadsaMoney · 10 Jun 2006 at 13:01

Got that motherboard here, i think its a cracker, much better than that DFi ***** i had, working great, mind you im not using the onboard sound as ive got a sound card in there, ill give it a go though see if my onboard sound works ok though.

EDIT: Just tried the onboard sound, works perfect for me on me 5.1 speakers.

comp builder · 10 Jun 2006 at 20:15

LoadsaMoney said:
Got that motherboard here, i think its a cracker, much better than that DFi ***** i had, working great, mind you im not using the onboard sound as ive got a sound card in there, ill give it a go though see if my onboard sound works ok though.

EDIT: Just tried the onboard sound, works perfect for me on me 5.1 speakers.

well that may be the problem im using 2.0 speakers (see link above) and it may not support them :confused:

Mikey1280 · 10 Jun 2006 at 20:28

It will support 2.0 speakers. Have you installed the audio drivers? Have you selected between rear of case audio using jumpers?

Paul -C- · 11 Jun 2006 at 12:19

I had the on board sound working fine. I didn't have to do anything to get it working , apart from install the drivers though

Mikey1280 · 11 Jun 2006 at 13:22

Theres usually jumpers to choose between the sound coming out the motherboards ports or the cases sound ports

comp builder · 11 Jun 2006 at 15:33

i tried to install the drvers but it would let me :confused:

comp builder · 11 Jun 2006 at 15:33

im going to look at my board now and see where the jumpers are
thanks

LoadsaMoney · 11 Jun 2006 at 22:18

When you Enabled the HD in the BIOS, did you get the found new hardware jobbie when yer PC booted up, all you got a do is cancel that, and bang in the motherboard CD, then the Soundmax drivers will appear on the CD to be installed, when i clicked on the Soundmax drivers to install them the installshield wizard that pops up in the centre of the screen was there for a canny bit, id actually thought it had crashed, but as i was just about to cancel it it started, and installed, and worked fine.

NightmareXX · 11 Jun 2006 at 23:37

I've got this mobo and I had a huge problem with the budled drivers. So I uninstalled em and are just using the XP default drivers now

2.0 speakers and works fine.

comp builder · 18 Jun 2006 at 15:05

NightmareXX said:
I've got this mobo and I had a huge problem with the budled drivers. So I uninstalled em and are just using the XP default drivers now 2.0 speakers and works fine.

i cant even get the comp to recognise my speakers (in audio, control panel) nor can i get the bundled drivers to install. How did you get your to work nightmare?
thanks