No audio device installed, fresh Windows install.

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iworshiplemons

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Hi guys, thanks for taking the time to read my problem.

I have an old GeForce 6100PM-M2 (version 2) motherboard (which supposedly has a built-in audio capability, according to their website). Additionally, I have a rocketfish 5.1 audio card plugged into a PCI slot on my motherboard.

I JUST finished putting this PC together - I'm not super experienced but I know my way around a PCB board. I have the 6100PM motherboard, 8 gigs of DDR2 ram, an old Raedon ATI graphics card, and nothing else fancy in my computer. With the old motherboard (that happened to be fried in a very strange way) I had sound no problem. With this "new" board (everything worked fine on the last PC I had it installed in) no sound at all. Installed drivers for both the on-motherboard sound "card", AND the rocketfish 5.1 I have on a PCI slot. Still nothing.

Any ideas? Thanks!

Jon
 
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smorizio

smorizio

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With a new build and clean install of windows some pci devices and other mb devices won't work till the mb chipset drivers are installed. If the mb uses an intel chipset download intel chipset update drivers. On reboot if there no sound check to see if someone turned the sound chipset off in the bios.
 
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photonboy

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If you use a sound card you want to disable the onboard sound in the motherboard BIOS. However, if you're troubleshooting you might want to REMOVE the sound card and just connect to the motherboard (GREEN) stereo output.

You can only have ONE of your audio devices selected. If you have the SPEAKERS plugged into the motherboard (onboard sound chip) but have the sound CARD selected as the audio device you'll get no sound.

Audio device:
right-click the audio icon-> "playback devices"-> select proper device and set as DEFAULT (and TEST).

Other:
You can sometimes have issues if you don't install the MAIN CHIPSET driver for the motherboard.
 
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