Well....
A8N SLI Premium, AMD Athlon64 4000+, Maxtor 200 gig SATA 150 HDD, Powercolor X850XT, 1 gig Corsair RAM,
CoolerMaster Centurion Case, Antec II 550W PS, Windows XP.

Got this baby together and I have no sound.

Drivers are installed, even went to Asus site, downloaded and installed latest Realtek ALC850 Driver
V5.10.0.5870 for Windows 2000/XP. Bios is updated to ver. 1009. Nothing turned off/down or muted in
software; checked bios and AC'97 is enabled. Everything else appears to work with no problems. Hmmmm....

Speakers are good, can move them to another computer and connect up, they work just fine. But when I hook up
to this computer, I've got nothing. Not a peep. I am stumped. I feel like perhaps it is something with the
hardware, maybe I didn't do something right when I assembled it?

I do have front panel audio hooked up on the case; this required removing 2 factory-installed jumpers from the
FP_Audio Connector (#13 - page 2-29 in user manual) to plug in the cable on the FP_Audio connector.

Anyone else have this problem, or anything similar?

Any help would be appreciated.

blitzen9x wrote:

> Well....
> A8N SLI Premium, AMD Athlon64 4000+, Maxtor 200 gig SATA 150 HDD,
> Powercolor X850XT, 1 gig Corsair RAM, CoolerMaster Centurion Case, Antec
> II 550W PS, Windows XP.
>
> Got this baby together and I have no sound.
>
> Drivers are installed, even went to Asus site, downloaded and installed
> latest Realtek ALC850 Driver
> V5.10.0.5870 for Windows 2000/XP. Bios is updated to ver. 1009. Nothing
> turned off/down or muted in
> software; checked bios and AC'97 is enabled. Everything else appears to
> work with no problems. Hmmmm....
>
> Speakers are good, can move them to another computer and connect up, they
> work just fine. But when I hook up
> to this computer, I've got nothing. Not a peep. I am stumped. I feel
> like perhaps it is something with the hardware, maybe I didn't do
> something right when I assembled it?
>
> I do have front panel audio hooked up on the case; this required removing
> 2 factory-installed jumpers from the FP_Audio Connector (#13 - page 2-29
> in user manual) to plug in the cable on the FP_Audio connector.
>
> Anyone else have this problem, or anything similar?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
Hi
Think you will find that putting the jumpers back will get your sound going
again. I have this M/B also with no issues but did not use the FP Audio
option. Have had other ASUS M/B's that have been the same.

--
Cheers
Malcolm °¿°

Malcolm wrote:
> blitzen9x wrote:
>
>
>>Well....
>>A8N SLI Premium, AMD Athlon64 4000+, Maxtor 200 gig SATA 150 HDD,
>>Powercolor X850XT, 1 gig Corsair RAM, CoolerMaster Centurion Case, Antec
>>II 550W PS, Windows XP.
>>
>>Got this baby together and I have no sound.
>>
>>Drivers are installed, even went to Asus site, downloaded and installed
>>latest Realtek ALC850 Driver
>>V5.10.0.5870 for Windows 2000/XP. Bios is updated to ver. 1009. Nothing
>>turned off/down or muted in
>>software; checked bios and AC'97 is enabled. Everything else appears to
>>work with no problems. Hmmmm....
>>
>>Speakers are good, can move them to another computer and connect up, they
>>work just fine. But when I hook up
>>to this computer, I've got nothing. Not a peep. I am stumped. I feel
>>like perhaps it is something with the hardware, maybe I didn't do
>>something right when I assembled it?
>>
>>I do have front panel audio hooked up on the case; this required removing
>>2 factory-installed jumpers from the FP_Audio Connector (#13 - page 2-29
>>in user manual) to plug in the cable on the FP_Audio connector.
>>
>>Anyone else have this problem, or anything similar?
>>
>>Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Hi
> Think you will find that putting the jumpers back will get your sound going
> again. I have this M/B also with no issues but did not use the FP Audio
> option. Have had other ASUS M/B's that have been the same.
>

hi

your cable from mb to case is proberly wrong!! do as malcolm said and use the case speaker
socket to verify! if this is ok, re-check your cable from the case, it "must" be wrong or
something like put upsidedown....

coco

On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 14:40:05 GMT, "blitzen9x" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Well....
>A8N SLI Premium, AMD Athlon64 4000+, Maxtor 200 gig SATA 150 HDD, Powercolor X850XT, 1 gig Corsair RAM,
>CoolerMaster Centurion Case, Antec II 550W PS, Windows XP.
>
>Got this baby together and I have no sound.
>
>Drivers are installed, even went to Asus site, downloaded and installed latest Realtek ALC850 Driver
>V5.10.0.5870 for Windows 2000/XP. Bios is updated to ver. 1009. Nothing turned off/down or muted in
>software; checked bios and AC'97 is enabled. Everything else appears to work with no problems. Hmmmm....
>
>Speakers are good, can move them to another computer and connect up, they work just fine. But when I hook up
>to this computer, I've got nothing. Not a peep. I am stumped. I feel like perhaps it is something with the
>hardware, maybe I didn't do something right when I assembled it?
>
>I do have front panel audio hooked up on the case; this required removing 2 factory-installed jumpers from the
>FP_Audio Connector (#13 - page 2-29 in user manual) to plug in the cable on the FP_Audio connector.
>
>Anyone else have this problem, or anything similar?
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>

(a) make sure that on-board audio is enabled in BIOS ( 'Auto'--- if no
other sound-card present --- or 'Enabled' if that option is
available )

(b) did you check that the audio worked at the rear-panel before
using front-panel ? Replace the jumpers in the CORRECT positions
and try the rear.

John Lewis

On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 03:05:58 GMT, (E-Mail Removed) (John Lewis)
wrote:

>On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 14:40:05 GMT, "blitzen9x" <(E-Mail Removed)>
>wrote:
>
>>Well....
>>A8N SLI Premium, AMD Athlon64 4000+, Maxtor 200 gig SATA 150 HDD, Powercolor X850XT, 1 gig Corsair RAM,
>>CoolerMaster Centurion Case, Antec II 550W PS, Windows XP.
>>
>>Got this baby together and I have no sound.
>>
>>Drivers are installed, even went to Asus site, downloaded and installed latest Realtek ALC850 Driver
>>V5.10.0.5870 for Windows 2000/XP. Bios is updated to ver. 1009. Nothing turned off/down or muted in
>>software; checked bios and AC'97 is enabled. Everything else appears to work with no problems. Hmmmm....
>>
>>Speakers are good, can move them to another computer and connect up, they work just fine. But when I hook up
>>to this computer, I've got nothing. Not a peep. I am stumped. I feel like perhaps it is something with the
>>hardware, maybe I didn't do something right when I assembled it?
>>
>>I do have front panel audio hooked up on the case; this required removing 2 factory-installed jumpers from the
>>FP_Audio Connector (#13 - page 2-29 in user manual) to plug in the cable on the FP_Audio connector.
>>
>>Anyone else have this problem, or anything similar?
>>
>>Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>>
>
>(a) make sure that on-board audio is enabled in BIOS ( 'Auto'--- if no
>other sound-card present --- or 'Enabled' if that option is
>available )
>
>(b) did you check that the audio worked at the rear-panel before
>using front-panel ? Replace the jumpers in the CORRECT positions
>and try the rear.
>
>John Lewis

I did have this trouble even though using a true Intel-standard
front-panel audio cable. When I built my computer in June, the
onboard sound worked after installing the Realtek drivers and
software, but when I had to reinstall Windows a few months later, I
couldn't get an audio device recognized in Device Manager or in the
Sounds applet in Control Panel. Nothing would work but installing the
audio portion of the nForce drivers. Assuming that there's no problem
with the front-panel cable on OP's setup, my recommendation would be
to run the setup program for the nForce4 chipset and allow the audio
portions of that driver to be installed. That's the only thing that
got my onboard audio working again.

Ron