Rear audio jack does not work

lbrende

June 8, 2008 11:43:14 PM

Just completed my build yesterday. Everything booted up fine, except no sound from my rear motherboard audio out jack. the one on the front of the case works, but not the rear.
Here are my components:

1 ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 7 Pro 92mm CPU Cooler - Retail
1 Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD5000AAKS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM
1 SAMSUNG 20X DVD±R DVD Burner Black SATA Model SH-S203B - OEM
1 Microsoft Windows Vista 32-Bit Home Premium for System Builders Single Pack DVD - OEM
1 XFX PVT88PYSF4 GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Retail
1 Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor Model BX80570E8400 - Retail
1 Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 1800 MCE Kit 1128 NTSC/ATSC/QAM/FM TV Tuner Card w/MCE
1 Antec Sonata Plus 550 Black/ Silver Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 550W Power
1 GIGABYTE GA-EP35-DS3R LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Dynamic Energy Saver Ultra Durable II Intel Motherboard - Retail

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foxman

June 9, 2008 2:01:44 AM

I have the same motherboard (I also got the same CPU and a similar case

) and never had this problem. I'm quite sure it's not about device driver, since mine worked "out of the box" (on Vista Business 32-bits and on Ubuntu x86-64). Don't know. If it's correctly plug and it doesn't work, guess it might be broken ?

Also, a note on the onboard sound; it isn't this good, I had a dedicated sound card on my last computer and even if that sound card was quite low-end, I noticed a difference in the quality of sound. Even if it's supose to be a good audio chip on the board. It still is... blah.

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shadowthor

June 9, 2008 2:17:20 AM

Is the sound driver installed, or the jack in the back is not working.

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bc4

June 9, 2008 2:27:22 AM

with some boards you can only output to one or the other. Make sure that you unplug the front jack and you might have to manually tell windows audio to output to the rear jack.

This could be off as I don't have the same board, but thought i'd throw it out there.

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evilshuriken

June 9, 2008 3:12:04 AM

On some boards when the front panel audio jack is in use, it will cut the rear jack out of the loop, then when the front jack is no longer in use it will allow the signal through to the rear jack, if the front jack is not closing the circuit properly then no audio signal will reach the rear jack.

This type of setup usually instructs you to put jumper caps on certain pins on the front panel audio header when not in use, to allow the rear jack to work.

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bushmastertd

June 9, 2008 7:36:42 AM

also may want to check the screw near the rear audio jack. Make sure it is not ground out, and if it is just get a rubber MB stand to put in the screws place.

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daveyJ213

March 18, 2012 9:03:11 PM

evilshuriken said:

On some boards when the front panel audio jack is in use, it will cut the rear jack out of the loop, then when the front jack is no longer in use it will allow the signal through to the rear jack, if the front jack is not closing the circuit properly then no audio signal will reach the rear jack.

This type of setup usually instructs you to put jumper caps on certain pins on the front panel audio header when not in use, to allow the rear jack to work.

Where would these jumper caps go? Directly onto the motherboard at some place? I notice there are four pins on my motherboard that are labeled "Speak", but nothing is attached to them. Rear speaker port does not work but front does. Also why doesn't the speaker jack seat all the way into the port. At least a 1/16" of the jack can still be seen.

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