Sound problems on GA-965P-DS3

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I nearly always use a headset when gaming and speakers when I listen to music, so I have audio ports on the front of my case for that.

This is the first onboard soundcard that detects what I plug in and changes the settings accordingly.

Everything is connected right, however when I plug something in the front nothing is detected so basically they dont work. When I plug my headset into the port on the back of the PC, it thinks they are speakers so it sounds bloody awful when you turn it up and there is no bass. If you listen to something at a reasonably low volume its OK, but you turn it up a little and the bass is gone. It sounds like your listening to something out a surround sound system without the Sub.

I have fiddled witht he Vista sound controls and also with this Gigabyte audio panel with no such luck.

Im using a Sennheiser headset so it's definatley not that with the problem. It's virtually new and worked fine with my last board also with onboard audio.

Any ideas why i'm getting these problems?
 
I'm having the same problem with this Mobo and Lianli Pc7 front speker loom.

The case comes with a multi point audio plug which fits the DS3 board perfectly yet Vista 64 wont pick it up?

Ive downloaded the driver from gigabyte btw.
 
sonyaddict said:
I'm having the same problem with this Mobo and Lianli Pc7 front speker loom.

The case comes with a multi point audio plug which fits the DS3 board perfectly yet Vista 64 wont pick it up?

Ive downloaded the driver from gigabyte btw.
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Wouldn't be the first time I have found that the although the plug is a correct fit with missing pin in right place the pinout did not in fact match the soundcard, afaik there this is a 'defacto' standard and therefore subject to variation. Would be worth checking this, motherboard manual normally has detailed pinouts on all the connectors.
 
celliott said:
I nearly always use a headset when gaming and speakers when I listen to music, so I have audio ports on the front of my case for that.

This is the first onboard soundcard that detects what I plug in and changes the settings accordingly.

Everything is connected right, however when I plug something in the front nothing is detected so basically they dont work. When I plug my headset into the port on the back of the PC, it thinks they are speakers so it sounds bloody awful when you turn it up and there is no bass. If you listen to something at a reasonably low volume its OK, but you turn it up a little and the bass is gone. It sounds like your listening to something out a surround sound system without the Sub.

I have fiddled witht he Vista sound controls and also with this Gigabyte audio panel with no such luck.

Im using a Sennheiser headset so it's definatley not that with the problem. It's virtually new and worked fine with my last board also with onboard audio.

Any ideas why i'm getting these problems?
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Been a while since I used the onboard sound but do remember there was a little utility program that would pop when it detected something being plugged and and would prompt me to select what it was, headphones, speakers, microphone etc. Perhaps this utility program is missing or not running?
 
it's worth checking if pinout of mb matches the "standard" of sound connector from chassis.

there are 2 standards for front audio pins : AC'97 and HD Audio and depending on which standard your chassis has you should set it accordingly in software sound panel. in case your front audio panel is AC'97 then in "connector settings" you should mark "disable front panel jack detection".

as the last step you can use sound drivers from realtek :
http://www.realtek.com.tw
 
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