Motherboard Audio Fried?

Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
C

captainshifty

Honorable
Jul 22, 2012
32
0
10,530
I was swapping one of my gpus into my M5A99FX Pro Motherboard when I accidentally hit one of the capacitors in the audio area with the card. The speakers let out a short pop. I then booted up the pc and a hum and popping noise of the sound switching between headphone and speakers jacks started. I tried uninstalling drivers with no fix. I then did a clean install of windows with no fix. The rest of the computer works fine just no audio and in windows sound manager it is constantly switching between speakers and headphones no matter if anything is plugged in. I also unplugged the front audio panel to check if that might be the cause but to no avail. Do you think my board is fried or would resetting the bios possibly fix it (not sure if I said that right but I think you understand what im saying.) I'd consider putting a soundcard in rather than replacing but wont it just continue it switch in sound manager.
 
Solution
harryfishrules
Sort by date Sort by votes
harryfishrules

harryfishrules

Reputable
Jun 26, 2015
355
0
4,960


Hey captainshifty. I'd definitely say that you've damaged the board when you hit the capacitor. Have you tried using the front panel connectors and disabling all of the others in the 'Playback Devices' menu (when you right click the sound icon in the taskbar)?
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Solution
Y

Y0GI

Splendid
Jul 22, 2013
4,745
0
24,960


Why in the world were you swapping GPUs while the power was on?? Lesson learned, I hope.

Prolly your easiest solution is to install a discreet sound card. Disable the onboard audio in the BIOS. Be sure to install the latest drivers for your new sound card. Get the drivers from the sound card mfg.

Yogi

 
Upvote 0 Downvote
C

captainshifty

Honorable
Jul 22, 2012
32
0
10,530
I disconnected the front panel connectors hoping that it would prevent the issues and it didn't work. However I did another clean install and put In a pci audio card and now audios working great now that I'm not using the motherboard jacks. Only issue I had was when I switched monitor cables from the GPU I started getting realtek popping up saying that the jacks were getting connected and unconnected. I think this was just caused by windows sneakily reinstalling the drivers for it and me unplugging the gpu was coincidental when it started.

Also I disabled all others now to prevent the pop ups from happening thanks. Might have lost the ability to resell my board for a few bucks down the road but at least I don't have to get a new one for my computer
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
harryfishrules

harryfishrules

Reputable
Jun 26, 2015
355
0
4,960


Great to hear that your problem has been solved. If you could mark someone's post as the 'best solution' it'll help us and also help people as this post will be marked as solved.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
C

captainshifty

Honorable
Jul 22, 2012
32
0
10,530
[/quotemsg]



Why in the world were you swapping GPUs while the power was on?? Lesson learned, I hope.

Prolly your easiest solution is to install a discreet sound card. Disable the onboard audio in the BIOS. Be sure to install the latest drivers for your new sound card. Get the drivers from the sound card mfg.

Yogi

[/quotemsg]

I had the power supply switch turned off but I think I didn't give everything enough time to discharge possibly, i'm not sure. I had been working on it for a few hours and was quickly swapping things whithin seconds of it powering down.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Latest posts

Moderators online

Share this page

COMPANY
RESOURCES
FOLLOW
Top Bottom