K7VTA3 V6.0 sound problem can someone give me a clue?

[mws5872]

Hi everyone I have a slight problem. I have a ECS board and I am using windows XP but I dont get any sound out of the board. there are no conflicts with the device manager. Any ideas why it wont work? thanks everyone.

 

[felixc]

You have installed the utilities that came on the motherboard CD? The utilities will configure the connectors for the various 2,4,5,7, channel possibilities, and will tell which ones are used. Usually there are test sounds with these utilities? Nothing at all works?

 

[lgebhart]

Has it ever worked?

Is it a new install?

Are your speakers plugged into the right sound card hole and turned on?

If a new install, double click on the little sound horn bottom right hand corner of your screen and see if there are any checkmarks in MUTE and the slider bar is all the way up.

By nothing wrong in device manager do you actually see SOUND as one of the entries with no exclamation points?
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NO sound at startup???? NO sound if you put a music CD in?

If you have integrated sound make sure your speakers are plugged into the green hole.

If you have a sound card in a PCI slot make sure you checkout your manual for that particular sound card.

Good Luck,






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[micker377]

I just (this evening) spent two hours trying to get the sound working on a KS75A (SIS) board, after installing SP2. The MicroSoft drivers would't work. The original drivers wouldn't work. I went to Google, and downloaded the file "A12111.zip". It is the general purpose driver for the SIS 7012 audio (6meg). I unzipped it, scrolled down to Win XP, and hit setup. The exit sound came on when asked to reboot!

 

[Frank4d]

Two more ideas...

Is the onboard AC97 audio turned on in the BIOS setup?
Is the volume muted in the Windows volume control panel?

 

[mws5872]

I was thinking it might be disabled in BIOS, I am trying to fix this remotely so I can't check really.

 

[Frank4d]

One of my home computers is a K7VTA3. If you see "Realtek AC97 audio" in Device Manager under sound controllers then it isn't disabled in BIOS.

 

[micker377]

My K7VTA3 (ver. 8), just says "VIA AC97 Enhanced Audio Controller" in Device Manager. The manual says it is a VIA VT1612A audio chip. You may have to determine what version of the motherboard you do have, and do a Google search.

 

[Frank4d]

LOL! MOBOs with the same part number don't have the same freaking audio chips! No wonder we have PC troubles.

 

[micker377]

Frank4d:
How can they (MFG) know which chip to put in when they can't read English? Headache's (from fighting cheap mobo's) prevent too much laughing!

 

[garebo]

Could be those chips are all one and the same.


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[micker377]

No, I've tried to install "close" drivers, and Windows won't allow it!

 

[RAID5plus1]

If I remember right some of them have a jumper near the back of the case just above the PCI cards that disables the onboard audio. If not their then you are probably disabled in the bios. I personally do not like the onboard devices. I like to get boards that I can add all my devices to so I can remove them if they go bad.

Yea ECS is known for their lack of quality.... Sorry, I would can that board and by a better board. If you are running on a tight budget check an ASROCK K7vm4 I think they are about 30 bucks and are made well. I have installed about 120 of those into customers machines and only had problems with one of them. They promptly replaced the board as well.

 

[felixc]

On my K7S5A, I just turned off the on-board sound chip and installed a old SBLive. Much better sound and drivers.
But aside from that the K7S5A works fine.