A7N8XE-Dlx sound not happening!

Hi All - I have recently bought an A7N8XE-Dlx mobo off eBay, along with
a XP3200+. The mobo and cpu seem to be working fine - using DDR400
memory without any probs - and all appears stable (played HL2, Calll of
Duty etc. without any errors). I'm using a MSI GF4 Ti4200 video card,
and my mainboard is BIOS flashed to 1013, nForce drivers to 5.10, and
ForceWare to 81.94.

The problem is - there's no sound coming out of the socket at the back.
I'm only using a bog standard set of headphones straight into the p.c
(worked fine with my previous MSI mobo). There doesn't appear to be any
conflicts or uninstalled devices in device manager - and I've played
around with all of the settings in the nForce tray setup. It doesn't
detect any hardware problems with the audio processors - and when I do
the basic windows microphone setup it can detect my voice in - but will
not relay it back out again. My question is - does anyone know of
anything else I can try to see if I can get some sound out of this mobo
before I sack it and buy an extra sound card??


--
thebarretthouse

In article ,
thebarretthouse wrote:

Hi All - I have recently bought an A7N8XE-Dlx mobo off eBay, along with
a XP3200+. The mobo and cpu seem to be working fine - using DDR400
memory without any probs - and all appears stable (played HL2, Calll of
Duty etc. without any errors). I'm using a MSI GF4 Ti4200 video card,
and my mainboard is BIOS flashed to 1013, nForce drivers to 5.10, and
ForceWare to 81.94.

The problem is - there's no sound coming out of the socket at the back.
I'm only using a bog standard set of headphones straight into the p.c
(worked fine with my previous MSI mobo). There doesn't appear to be any
conflicts or uninstalled devices in device manager - and I've played
around with all of the settings in the nForce tray setup. It doesn't
detect any hardware problems with the audio processors - and when I do
the basic windows microphone setup it can detect my voice in - but will
not relay it back out again. My question is - does anyone know of
anything else I can try to see if I can get some sound out of this mobo
before I sack it and buy an extra sound card??

-- thebarretthouse

Try putting the two jumpers back on the FP_AUDIO header.
Check the user manual - you can download it from support.asus.com
if the manual is missing - and section 2.7 has an item that
explains where the two jumpers go on FP_AUDIO.

The two jumpers provide continuity for Line_Out left and right
channel. They allow Line_Out to be muted, if you connect an
"Intel Compatible" front panel audio setup, and insert headphones
into the front audio jack. With no front audio wiring, the jumpers
have to go back in place.

HTH,
Paul

Paul Wrote:
In article ,
thebarretthouse wrote:

Hi All - I have recently bought an A7N8XE-Dlx mobo off eBay, along
with
a XP3200+. The mobo and cpu seem to be working fine - using DDR400
memory without any probs - and all appears stable (played HL2, Calll
of
Duty etc. without any errors). I'm using a MSI GF4 Ti4200 video card,
and my mainboard is BIOS flashed to 1013, nForce drivers to 5.10, and
ForceWare to 81.94.

The problem is - there's no sound coming out of the socket at the
back.
I'm only using a bog standard set of headphones straight into the p.c
(worked fine with my previous MSI mobo). There doesn't appear to be
any
conflicts or uninstalled devices in device manager - and I've played
around with all of the settings in the nForce tray setup. It doesn't
detect any hardware problems with the audio processors - and when I
do
the basic windows microphone setup it can detect my voice in - but
will
not relay it back out again. My question is - does anyone know of
anything else I can try to see if I can get some sound out of this
mobo
before I sack it and buy an extra sound card??

-- thebarretthouse

Try putting the two jumpers back on the FP_AUDIO header.
Check the user manual - you can download it from support.asus.com
if the manual is missing - and section 2.7 has an item that
explains where the two jumpers go on FP_AUDIO.

The two jumpers provide continuity for Line_Out left and right
channel. They allow Line_Out to be muted, if you connect an
"Intel Compatible" front panel audio setup, and insert headphones
into the front audio jack. With no front audio wiring, the jumpers
have to go back in place.

HTH,
Paul

Gr8 - worked a treat that Paul - as you suspected there were no jumpers
in place on this block (is this normal?? all the other defaults jumpers
seemed to be in place on the mobo which is why I missed it!). All
working fine now - thanks for your help.


--
thebarretthouse

Do not use the Microsoft web update to install there software for the sound
in the A7N8XE-D board. It wipes out the sound. You will have to get the
original Asus install disk and reinstall.

Joltjocky
"thebarretthouse" wrote in
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Paul Wrote:
In article ,
thebarretthouse wrote:

Hi All - I have recently bought an A7N8XE-Dlx mobo off eBay, along
with
a XP3200+. The mobo and cpu seem to be working fine - using DDR400
memory without any probs - and all appears stable (played HL2, Calll
of
Duty etc. without any errors). I'm using a MSI GF4 Ti4200 video card,
and my mainboard is BIOS flashed to 1013, nForce drivers to 5.10, and
ForceWare to 81.94.

The problem is - there's no sound coming out of the socket at the
back.
I'm only using a bog standard set of headphones straight into the p.c
(worked fine with my previous MSI mobo). There doesn't appear to be
any
conflicts or uninstalled devices in device manager - and I've played
around with all of the settings in the nForce tray setup. It doesn't
detect any hardware problems with the audio processors - and when I
do
the basic windows microphone setup it can detect my voice in - but
will
not relay it back out again. My question is - does anyone know of
anything else I can try to see if I can get some sound out of this
mobo
before I sack it and buy an extra sound card??

-- thebarretthouse

Try putting the two jumpers back on the FP_AUDIO header.
Check the user manual - you can download it from support.asus.com
if the manual is missing - and section 2.7 has an item that
explains where the two jumpers go on FP_AUDIO.

The two jumpers provide continuity for Line_Out left and right
channel. They allow Line_Out to be muted, if you connect an
"Intel Compatible" front panel audio setup, and insert headphones
into the front audio jack. With no front audio wiring, the jumpers
have to go back in place.

HTH,
Paul

Gr8 - worked a treat that Paul - as you suspected there were no jumpers
in place on this block (is this normal?? all the other defaults jumpers
seemed to be in place on the mobo which is why I missed it!). All
working fine now - thanks for your help.


--
thebarretthouse

On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:09:57 -0500, "Donald Witmer"
wrote:

Do not use the Microsoft web update to install there software for the sound
in the A7N8XE-D board. It wipes out the sound. You will have to get the
original Asus install disk and reinstall.

Joltjocky
"thebarretthouse" wrote in
message m...

Paul Wrote:
In article ,
thebarretthouse wrote:

Hi All - I have recently bought an A7N8XE-Dlx mobo off eBay, along
with
a XP3200+. The mobo and cpu seem to be working fine - using DDR400
memory without any probs - and all appears stable (played HL2, Calll
of
Duty etc. without any errors). I'm using a MSI GF4 Ti4200 video card,
and my mainboard is BIOS flashed to 1013, nForce drivers to 5.10, and
ForceWare to 81.94.

There is a jumper that controls whether the sound goes to the back or
the front. As I recall (it has been a while) if the jumper is off the
sound goes to the front.