Odd sound problem with 8KNXP

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Windows XP decided to eat it's registry on friday so I had to do a
complete ground up reinstall of my machine over the weekend.

I downloaded all the latest drivers from the gigabyte website for my
rev1 8KNXP, and everything is now fine, except one little annoying
niggle.

When I move the system tray volume slider up or down, the test beep
comes from my onboard speaker, not the onboard sound card, even though
the volume control does change the volume of the sound. Mediaplayer
works fine, my games work fine, the only thing that seems confused
about where to send the sound is the volume slider itself.

Every sound config screen I can see shows the realtek as the default
sound device.

Any ideas?

Cheers,

D0d6y.
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On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 00:49:52 GMT, "Kilgore Trout Jr"
<someguy@earthlink.net> waffled on about something:

>That is a weird one! Any problems indicated in device manager? It might be
>worth a shot to delete Realtek in device manager and then reboot. Windows
>should discover the new hardware and reinstall the drivers.

Nope, everything looks happy.

Games work, media player works.

I've even uninstalled the drivers, rebooted, reinstalled, rebooted.
Still the same.

I just noticed that the default "You've made a booboo" beep also comes
out of the pc speaker instead of the sound card...

Most odd.

Dodgy.
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Travis Jordan wrote:
> Dodgy wrote:
> > Any ideas?
>
> Sure - install TweakUI for XP, uncheck "Beep on errors".

Also...
http://support.microsoft.com/defau [...] us;q262256

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On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 19:26:49 GMT, "Travis Jordan" <no.one@no.net>
waffled on about something:

>Travis Jordan wrote:
>> Dodgy wrote:
>> > Any ideas?
>>
>> Sure - install TweakUI for XP, uncheck "Beep on errors".
>
>Also...
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q262256

Thanks, that looked promising... Except I don't have the dodgy value
in the registry...

My search continues!

Dodgy.
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"Travis Jordan" <no.one@no.net> wrote in news:N_yue.131284$yp5.10444
@fe03.news.easynews.com:

> Dodgy wrote:
>> That's only one step away from "Stick a screw driver through the
>> internal speaker"
>
> Well, not really, since the primary use of the internal speaker is to
> provide a way for the system to enumerate POST beep codes....
>
>
>

Dodgy, is your problem fixed? I had the same problem until I wiped the HD
and reinstalled XPpro.

If anyone cares, the speaker also emits the beeps if you turn on 'toggle
keys' in accessibilities. The feature wasn't working on my new mb until I
realized I knocked the header cable off the mb.

I have that board, and I don't use the onboard sound anymore because it's shafty and doesn't produce tones right. My advice to you is to use whatever driver is on Gigabytes Website, not Realtek, because for some reason, when you go newer, it messes up the audio codec. So make sure that that is the driver you are using or you are going to have more problems than just the windows volume control. I had things ranging from surround speakers not working, to no bass whatsoever, unless I used those drivers.