Hoping someone here can help me...
I've been beating my head against a wall for months
trying to figure this out.

I have an Athlon XP 2000+ on an ASUS A7S333 MB. The
problem is the C-Media CMI8738 sound chip, using XP Pro.
I have no sound. No windows event sounds, no nothing. I
can see them playing. It USED to work for about a month,
then one day it stopped. Then I got it to play MP3's ok
after much messing around. I don't get any IM sounds
either (like from Yahoo messenger or AIM). Now I can't
get anything. I installed the newest driver many MANY
times, and it never worked. ANY ideas? I know this is a
common problem, but I have never found a real answer to
it.

Thanks!

Hello

Well 1 option is to disable the onboard soundcard
install a scard and go from their, I know does not make
sense todo that but, maybe your onboard souncard
could be faulty

Alvin


Chris wrote:

> Hoping someone here can help me...
> I've been beating my head against a wall for months
> trying to figure this out.
>
> I have an Athlon XP 2000+ on an ASUS A7S333 MB. The
> problem is the C-Media CMI8738 sound chip, using XP Pro.
> I have no sound. No windows event sounds, no nothing. I
> can see them playing. It USED to work for about a month,
> then one day it stopped. Then I got it to play MP3's ok
> after much messing around. I don't get any IM sounds
> either (like from Yahoo messenger or AIM). Now I can't
> get anything. I installed the newest driver many MANY
> times, and it never worked. ANY ideas? I know this is a
> common problem, but I have never found a real answer to
> it.
>
> Thanks!

If you could play MP3s but not .wav files it sounds like
you have one or more codecs missing/damaged?
Perhaps if you try and open a .wav in Windows Media
Player, it might attempt to download the codec from MS. A
Windows repair install might be something else to consider.

"myth-unit" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<053c01c3c440$bdccc310$(E-Mail Removed)>...
> If you could play MP3s but not .wav files it sounds like
> you have one or more codecs missing/damaged?
> Perhaps if you try and open a .wav in Windows Media
> Player, it might attempt to download the codec from MS. A
> Windows repair install might be something else to consider.

I doubt it's a codec problem. He mentioned that he wasn't able to hear
windows event sounds, which are all .wav files.

I have a similar problem. The motherboard is able to send sound out,
as the beeps that happen when I do bios changes come through the
speakers fine.

I've deleted and reinstalled drivers, changed cards around, changed
speaker configuration, everything I can think of.

Someone out there must have figured this out! Has ASUS said anything?