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dangerdave   03-14-2007 at 06:53:16 AM

I just upgraded my 2.6ghz Celeron to a 3.0 northwood. After I installed it, the sound stopped working.

Whats really weird is the front audio headphone port works, but only on the right speaker. I can pull out a little and get the left to work, but when I do a speaker test the left still doesn't play. I guess half unplugged routes the right to the left for some reason.

Now the port on the back, which is what I usually use, doesn't work at all. I have tried it with my headphones too. I get the same results.

I know there is always a small chance of electostatic whatever when you're working on a pc, but I highly doubt this is the case.

-I'm using a Shuttle XPC something or other.
-I'm using onboard, realtek 97 sound.
-I have upgraded to the newest drivers/software.

Any ideas? Any help would be totally appreciated, as I'm about all out of any.

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NaDa   03-14-2007 at 07:42:47 AM
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Check your cables, your connections. Try with some other speaker.

If nothing helps you can always buy another cheap sound card. They can be found realy cheap.

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dangerdave   03-14-2007 at 08:08:26 AM
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Well, I've tried with my headphones, and got the same resukts. I actually just tried that. I plugged a sound blaster audigy gamer in and couldn't even get to windows. The hdd wasn't being detected. All this sounds like a motherboard problem, but I have a feeling its the processor, if anything. My other feeling is that there is something really stupid I have forgotten.

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NaDa   03-14-2007 at 08:17:07 AM
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I had a mobo fail after a year and half.

I had to underclock the memory to keep it prime stable. Then sometimes it wouldn't post, until one day it decided not to turn on any more.
So I took it out of the case switched it with another board. A month later I decided to give it one more try. It worked!
But there are some more problems. The memory still cant work better than DDR333 and the sound card doesnt work at all.

The secondary IDE port is not working properly I get bad performance with HDDs.

I gave the board to my little brother and it's fine for him. He pluged in SB Live 5.1 and it's doing ok.

I dont think it's the processor. You can always check by pluging in the old one. It's probably the mobo. It could be also related to a PSU you can never know. Try a different PSU if you have one.

If this all doesnt work then unplug everything, dissasemble everything, take the mobo out then try it on your desk without a case with as little components as you can. Maybe the problem will just magicaly go away.

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dangerdave   03-14-2007 at 07:01:26 PM
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I tried using my older processor, I get the same results.

Whats happening now is that my hdd isn't even being detected!

So, what I did was boot into ubuntu and tried the sound out; it all works great. I'm not sure what to make of this.

I'm also thinking it may be because my psu doesn't have enough juice, or maybe the 3.0 northwood just blew it up or something.

I'm going to try plugging in another psu and see what happens.

NaDa, thanks for the help.

-Turns out I can't plug regular psu into the motherboard. It's using some kind of small hookeruper thingy. I tried just plugging in the hdd and dvd burner to the other psu, but the it didn't even turn on.

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dangerdave   03-17-2007 at 01:41:21 AM
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For anyone out there that may have googled this, I found the solution:

My hdd cable was bad! I called Shuttle's tech support, that was one of the first thing the guy said to check. Inexpensive problems are definitely the best problems to have, I guess.

Actually, that fixed the boot problem. I accidentally figured out the audio. I dropped the dvd burner right on the jumper audio thingys, causing the audio to blip on for a sec.

I turns out, after installing, my processor, I slightly jarred the cables a little!

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NaDa   03-17-2007 at 02:21:17 AM
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Really weird problem. Never had that.
It's good to know.

Nice that you have fixed your rig now mate :)

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