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07-29-2003, 08:07 PM
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K7S5A sound problems
This may be a dumba$$ problem, but I had a major system malfunction a while back. My PS shorted out my hard drive, and opticals (didn't know it at the time). At first I thought the problem was the mobo, so I switched it out, after that didn't solve the problem, I put the old one back in and had it diagnosed at a retail store. Finally got new parts in and got it up and running, but when I went to install the onboard sound, it didn't work!
The install seemed to work, and when I check the sound out under the system tab, it says that everything is fine, but when I try to play a sound file it tells me that the devidce isn't working properly. Could this be because I screwed up the front panel audio connecters? I doubt it, since I don't even use those, and this is ONBOARD audio...any suggestions?
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07-30-2003, 01:01 AM
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Well yes, audio codecs are just as easily fried as any other electronic component. It might have died along with the other stuff, or from you malconnecting it.
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07-30-2003, 05:36 AM
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If there was enough juice to fry the audio codecs, wouldn't the ps2 and such be fried as well? My AGP video card and modem were fine, so I was thinking (and I'm no expert) that the stuff connected to the mobo were pretty much allright.
If this is just a glitch, and not a fried component, would installing a PCI sound card take care of it? Or would the glitch apply to all sound devices?
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07-30-2003, 05:48 AM
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Well, the PS2 and stuff wouldn't neccesarily be fried. Check its enabled in the BIOS, and if it doesn't work, I'd return the board, because you don't know what else is wrong with it ATM, for all you know it could have done in a DIMM slot or some PCI ones as well.
Don't go with a Creative sound card, if you have a board revision <3.0 though, it will cause no end of trouble. This is a problem with the cards BTW, not the mobo, but its still a bugger.
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07-30-2003, 07:01 AM
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How can I tell what board revision I have? And if I do have <3.0 would a Phillips card work?
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Windows 98SE
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1.33 GHz Athalon
256 Mb RAM
120 Gb Maxtor HDD
52/24/52 Samsund CD-RW
16X Aopen DVD
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07-30-2003, 07:34 AM
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Creative SB!Live cards will cause troubles on ALL non-Intel chipsets. The later "5.1" series are OK in that aspect, but the driver quality still makes me avoid them. There's better stuff around.
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