A7N8X On-Board audio

[FaMoUs]

Hi. I have recently purchased an A7N8X motherboard and so far so good. I, myself, am having a problem though with the on-board audio. When I try to play music, it gives me an error message saying something about how I cant play music files because I dont have the right device for it.(something like that). I went into BIOS and stuck pretty much all the on-board features on auto.(I still need to update BIOS) I still am not sure what the prob is. Its probably something simple but, if you can tell me all the possible ideas on what it could be, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks. AND also, in the user's manual it shows a Digital Audio Connector (6 pin SPDIF1) and a USB header (10-1 pin USB56) and none of those came with the board. I don't know if they were supposed to but my main concern is just the audio right now. Thanks.

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by FaMoUs on 02/27/03 07:49 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[jlanka]

do you get any sounds at all? What OS?

<i>It's always the one thing you never suspected.</i>

 

[FaMoUs]

No. When i go to control panel/audio devices, nothing shows up, i cant adjust the volume, i dont have anything under sound playback/sound recording. Im using windows xp pro. Im not sure but it seems that the computer doesnt detect the onboard audio or maybe i just didnt install something the right way :\

A7N8X, AMD 2100+, 512mb PC3200 Corsair XMS DDR, GeForce4 Ti4200, WD 80gig HD, Windows Xp pro.

 

[jlanka]

is there a yellow question mark in the device manager? If so you must install the audio drivers from the CD that came with the board

<i>It's always the one thing you never suspected.</i>

 

[FaMoUs]

Yes there are yellow question marks. When i stuck the cd in, it only showed like a couple drivers but none for audio. Do i have to manually go into the cd and pull out certain files for it? because when i search in the cd, i see folders called, "AudioDrv" and "AudioUtl". I dont think it installed those. let me hook up the other pc and try it out, ill let you know what happens.

-A7N8X AMD 2100+
-512mb PC3200 Corsair XMS DDR
-GeForce4 Ti4200
-WD 80gig HD
-Windows Xp pro.

 

[jlanka]

yeah, you have to reinstall driver, then click "have disk" and drill it down to those folders you mentioned until it finds the driver

<i>It's always the one thing you never suspected.</i>

 

[tRiXtA]

Perhaps you should try the actual updated Asus driver.

Click <A HREF="http://www.asus.com.tw/support/download/selectftp.aspx?l1_id=1&l2_id=10&l3_id=23&m_id=1&f_name=nf2v116_wxp.zip~zaqwedc" target="_new">HERE</A>

I am confident this will be the best driver for you.

Good Luck

Rob

<b><font color=red>Nothin like a Pentium II furiously churning out a blistering 0.8 FPS on 3D Mark 2001!!!</font color=red></b>

 

[knownalien]

do you have the deluxe or non deluxe??

the usb header is the one that has the gameport thing too. the optional. also i think the 6 pin SPDIF1 is too.



XP 2800+ (thor B); Asus A7N8X Delux; Maxtor 40/120 gig ATA 133; AIW9700 RadeonPro; Corsair PC3200 (2X256); LiteOn CDRW; Sony DVD-+RW; Antec Case; Antec TruePower 550; many many fans; WinXp

 

[FaMoUs]

Finally i got my old pc back. The sound starts to work now. It was from the drivers. I have just the normal a7n8x

-A7N8X AMD 2100+
-512mb PC3200 Corsair XMS DDR
-GeForce4 Ti4200
-WD 80gig HD
-Windows Xp pro.