No sound - checked everything

No3ntry · 10 Oct 2007 at 21:59

I recently took apart my fully working main pc and sold the components to my bro

The motherboard was a socket A ABit NF7
we have installed windows xp pro (same OS that i was using)
we have installed latest nforce drivers
we have checked his speakers on the headphone jack of his stereo system and they work
I have checked every single setting to do with sound on the computer
I have made sure the audio is enabled in the bios
I have played music and checked the sound levels in the nvidia sound control panel is jumping up and down to the music.

The sound still does not work

The motherboard had 2 jumpers attached to it on the sound connector pins
one to connect the 2 left channels together and one for the 2 right channels

I took these off to connect the front panel of his case and when it was discovered he had no sound we returned the jumpers and removed the front panel connector.

What else can I do to get the bloody sound working.

Frustrated
No3ntry

Amnesia · 11 Oct 2007 at 02:29

check volume control...its probably muted

something_totally_different · 11 Oct 2007 at 11:52

Just a quick note, as anoying as it may be, youl probably have an easier life if you just go buy a seperate sound card, you can pick up a bog standard 5.1 card for under a tenner now.

Admiral Huddy · 11 Oct 2007 at 12:18

Sound for the nForce 2 is a bit flaky if i recall. Was SP1 or SP2 loaded beore installing correct chipset drivers? If oy have an old copy of windows, it may not have it on there already.

You might also want to have a playaround with the nvSwap utility, availaible fron the nVidia website. Just a first thought.

uv · 11 Oct 2007 at 12:27

Admiral Huddy said:
Sound for the nForce 2 is a bit flaky if i recall.

that's balls, if it's got soundstorm - nf2 soundstorm was/is just about the best onboard audio you could get!

Admiral Huddy · 11 Oct 2007 at 12:32

This isn't a discussion if it's any good or not.. just to get it working. I was refering to the installation being a bit flaky, not the product itself. iirc, it was a right pain to setup from a fresh install of windows. I remember having to use the nvswap utility. it's worth a go.

No3ntry · 18 Oct 2007 at 20:01

I did fix this with a cheapo sound card inseatd of properly looking at the problem.

It was a brand new copy of xp pro from OCUK installed on it.

I used to have an epox NF2 motherboard with xp pro and when it gave up i swapped it out for the abit without changing any drivers and it just worked.

whereas on my bros it was a fresh install.

I had a mare with that mobo installing xp in the first place due to xp not recognising the sata controller even with drivers on a floppy disk.

GhostlyPea · 18 Oct 2007 at 20:02

I had a similar problem recently, just re-installed AC97, sorted it like a pro O.o

- Pea0n

james.miller · 18 Oct 2007 at 20:03

uvmain said:
that's balls, if it's got soundstorm - nf2 soundstorm was/is just about the best onboard audio you could get!

humour me, what made it so good? was it the awful DAC's used on the analogue side, of the latancy that D.I.C.E introduced, or th weired sound artifacts it introduced? it was good at the time, but these days its...meh.