Asus P5Q-E - Front Audio

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I've never used the front audio so, no idea if ever worked before, but, I recently bought a pair of headphones with a mic for some gaming and would be great to be able to use them.

I have an Asus P5Q-E motherboard running Win7x64, I also have an older ASUS case. Case has 2 sets of wires, one lose, and a set that matches Asus' motherboard pins, so basically an all-in-one plug which is handy.

I have gone into the BIOS and switched the front audio back/forth between high def audio, and the AC'97 options but no change. When I go into speaker properties it shows rear jacks only. Device manager show high definition audio device, as well as the HDMI audio on my Nvidia card that I use for a media player. There are no "?" or "!" marks showing in device manager, everything is installed.

Any ideas?

Also, when I plug in headphones, should it detect they're in and disable the desktop speakers plugged into the rear or will both be active?

Thanks

EDIT - I opened up the computer and looked, and wiring does seem to match what's in the manual. Being an older case the wiring looks to be "Legacy AC'97 Compliant"... by default the motherboard was set to HD Audio, which is now set to AC'97, but no change. Do I need something installed?
 
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The driver is HD and there is no HD connector, only the AC97 as per my edit comment. Older case, but the motherboard manual shows it will work with either plug.

I did figure it out though. Win7 installed the HD Audio drivers... annoyingly, despite turning off the auto-install of hardware, on reboot it installed it again anyways after I removed it from device manager. I did grab the SoundMAX 2000B from the ASUS site... I guess Microsoft installed generic drivers? in any case, it still doesn't show front audio jacks under the general tab, but it did ad a couple other tabs and it does work. I leaves the main speakers active so I have to hit the power switch to turn them off but the headphones and mic work.

So... removed the generic HD...
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The driver is HD and there is no HD connector, only the AC97 as per my edit comment. Older case, but the motherboard manual shows it will work with either plug.

I did figure it out though. Win7 installed the HD Audio drivers... annoyingly, despite turning off the auto-install of hardware, on reboot it installed it again anyways after I removed it from device manager. I did grab the SoundMAX 2000B from the ASUS site... I guess Microsoft installed generic drivers? in any case, it still doesn't show front audio jacks under the general tab, but it did ad a couple other tabs and it does work. I leaves the main speakers active so I have to hit the power switch to turn them off but the headphones and mic work.

So... removed the generic HD Audio Drivers, install the ASUS drivers despite being kinda old, reboot, and make sure the BIOS is set to AC97 for the front panel to indicate the plug type.

If someone could click my post for best solution it be most appreciated. :D
 
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