- Jan 23, 2013
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Wife's old computer died. Rebuilt my old computer for her. Has gaming motherboard P5n32-E SLI and sound card that came with it. Attempted to go with Windows 7 Pro but then discovered on the ASUS site that this motherboard is not supported under windows 7. Thought this might be my problem, since I could not load the motherboard drivers with disk that came with it. Nor could I get drivers from ASUS site since could not select operating system Windows 7 for this board.
Decided to revert back to Windows XP Pro. Managed to get motherboard CD to run and installed all drivers, including the soundmax drivers for the sound card that came with it. Operating system is now totally up to date with all windows updates. Now with SP3 also. All drivers look good and working properly in device manager. No yellow flags on sound devices. All show good. Even tried to disable digital audo, thinking maybe I needed analog. Still no sound. I can see the visual lights blinking when I play a CD or music from Windows Media Player, like the sound is playing but I hear nothing. Sound speakers are all hooked up properly and I even ran a sound test via the Master volume on my right speaker and it played static noise out of all speakers. Two stereo speakers and floor woofer all work properly. They are Boston speakers. And they were working just fine on wife's old computer, so I know they work fine. But this rebuilt computer just won't play anything out my speakers.
At my witts end. Someone please help before I pull all my hair out.
Thanks in advance.
Michael
Decided to revert back to Windows XP Pro. Managed to get motherboard CD to run and installed all drivers, including the soundmax drivers for the sound card that came with it. Operating system is now totally up to date with all windows updates. Now with SP3 also. All drivers look good and working properly in device manager. No yellow flags on sound devices. All show good. Even tried to disable digital audo, thinking maybe I needed analog. Still no sound. I can see the visual lights blinking when I play a CD or music from Windows Media Player, like the sound is playing but I hear nothing. Sound speakers are all hooked up properly and I even ran a sound test via the Master volume on my right speaker and it played static noise out of all speakers. Two stereo speakers and floor woofer all work properly. They are Boston speakers. And they were working just fine on wife's old computer, so I know they work fine. But this rebuilt computer just won't play anything out my speakers.
At my witts end. Someone please help before I pull all my hair out.
Thanks in advance.
Michael
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