NO AUDIO ! 1

[dhar25]

I have a ECS K7S5A Pro 5.0 motherboard in a newly assembled
PC. The onboard sound card in the motherboard is not working. I have down loaded the Audio Drive from the manufacturer and tried to install it. The audio driver won't install either. It gives a messge like " the plug & play needs upgrade". I have windows XP operating System .

I am not sure that the error message is correct. Any suggestions as to how to fix this problem. Thank you in advance.

 

[rockerfellerz]

Has the onboard sound been enabled in the bios?

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[blutekhnd]

I could have very easily have missed it, since I did a very fast look-see, but I did not see that motherboard listed in the Windows XP hardware catalog as being compatible. You might want to look into that.

 

[dhar25]

This MB used to have sound installed from the CD that came with it. It used to work with windows XP well.

This time I am using this MB for another project with a new hard drive and every thing else is the same. The same CD that came with the MB is no longer able to install the sound. Therefore I down loaded the latest drive from the Manufacturer, it still won't install, instead it quits half way. I have XP Operating System with MS Office 2001 and DSL connected to on-boadrd Lan, every thing works fine except for the onboard sound which used to work fine.

 

[micker377]

I just set up a K7S5A board with XP home last week (hasn't even shipped yet. To get it to work with XP (original install CD says: Not applicable to XP), I had to use "Everest Home" (free) to find what chip it used (different chips on different runs of this mobo). Do a google search for this audio chip, and download the new drivers. Out of curiosity, which audio chip does yours use?