GA-MA770-DS3 -- Audio Help, Please

[mkrel1]

I have two Gigabyte boards, and I never could get the integrated Realtek 880 to work on either of them. This isn't an issue with my main rig as I have a sound card, but on my secondary machine I am relying on the integrated sound. I have installed the latest audio drivers from Gigabyte's page to no avail. Can anyone help or point me to a tutorial dealing with this issue (I use XP SP3).

Question 2: The manual for both of my boards (one is a GA-M57SLI-S4) says that the BIOS should beep at post. Neither of the boards EVER beep at any time. Is there something that must be configured in order to enable this "beeping?" I thought that maybe my M57SLI board had an issue, but my brand new MA770 board is also not beeping.

 

[fleakiller]

I know it's silly but do you have a speaker hooked up ?, check page 20,27,42 in your manual, also did you install drivers for audio?

 

[fleakiller]

Also page 83 in manual

 

[mkrel1]

Yeah I have speakers hooked into the proper port on the back (just a cheap set of analog speakers). I also downloaded the audio drivers from gigabyte's site.

One thing I have noticed is that even after having installed these drivers, I cannot see the "Audio Manager" icon anywhere in the system tray. You can see that icon on page 83.

 

[fleakiller]

did you check bios setting?, and have you tried different set of speakers or headphones

 

[fleakiller]

Also did you see the caution on page 83

 

[fleakiller]

Sorry afeter reading speaker for mb to hear the beep when you boot up

 

[IH8U]

I had similar issues with my board (finally bought a sound card), except my speakers worked for a while, then the audio manager stopped (no sound). I had to go to Realtek's site for working drivers (although it removes the audio manager). Still had issues, so I bought a cheap Diamond 7.1 sound card, this solved my sound issues. Here is a link to my card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829111001
$26 + S&H (Diamonds' site has 64bit drivers that work)

 

[mkrel1]

Thanks. I had forgotten to download the Microsoft UAA Bus driver. After installing it, it worked.

I still can't get it to work on my GA-M57SLI-S4 however. I think it could be my speakers, as they require digital output through standard analog wire.

As for the lack of BIOS beep, any idea on this? As I said, neither of my boards have ever beeped. Not sure what to make of it. Is there some "jumper" or something similar I must physically configure on the mobo itself? The manual doesn't suggest there is, yet I have never heard an audible beep (although both board work just fine).

 

[fleakiller]

Did you plug in a speaker to the motherboard? that's in the case??, as for the ga-m57sli-s4 i will look at that tomorrow

 

[pcgamer12]

We are talking about case speakers. Not desktop speakers. Case speakers sole purpose is to beep on POST and beep error codes.

 

[mkrel1]

So that's the prob, neither of my cases have speakers (I have an NZXT Lexa and a Raidmax Smilodon). I don't believe that most after market cases have speakers, or am I wrong about that?

BTW, I am assuming that the GA-MA770-DS3 does not have a built in speaker?

 

[fleakiller]

mkrel1 wicth rev 1.0,1.1,or 2.0 on the ga-m57sli-s4. yes you are right most new cases dont have speakers

 

[spanner_razor]

You can pick up one up from a hardware store for a few bucks usually. I had one but then the store I used to repair my pc stole it, grrr.