Sound problems on A8N-SLI

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I just installed this board a few days ago. Tried the realtek sounddrivers
which is finding
random devices when I connect my speakers to the rear panel.

With nvidias drivers, the test does give static noise, when I connect the
speakers to the
grey plug, but no sound, connected to the green plug, I don't get anything.

Does anyone have a clue of what could be wrong?

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LD (answer.tothe@group.invalid) wrote:


> I just installed this board a few days ago. Tried the realtek sounddrivers
> which is finding random devices when I connect my speakers to the rear
> panel.
>
> With nvidias drivers, the test does give static noise, when I connect the
> speakers to the grey plug, but no sound, connected to the green plug, I
> don't get anything.
>
> Does anyone have a clue of what could be wrong?

I had similar problems with my rear speakers and the grey socket. Only one
rear speaker played sound, then that went away. I uninstalled everything,
made sure nothing was left behind (Beyond Compare comparison between system
and image back up) and then I installed these drivers which are newer than
those on Asus web site, problem solved, proper sound through rear speakers.

http://www.station-drivers.com/tel [...] 7%203.75.e
xe

v3.75 at the bottom of the page.
http://www.station-drivers.com/page/realtek.htm

Like all Realtek drivers they make a mess of installing stuff where they
shouldn't (in system32 folder for instance!) but they work very nicely except
the equaliser doesn't work with CDs.

Mark

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On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 23:43:21 +0200, "LD" <answer.tothe@group.invalid>
wrote:

>> See item 13 on page 2-28 of the user manual, entitled
>> "Front Panel Audio Connector".
>
>Aarghhh... D*mn. RTFM.

Always a good idea to read the manual, but in this case, you shouldn't
have needed to because those jumpers should have been factory
installed. Weren't they?

Ron