Asus P4S8X-X Sound, Network Issues

[Kirk]

I recently bought an Asus P4S8X-X, and have not nothing but trouble
from it. First of all, the sound doesnt work. I have tried several
operating systems, and havent ever had any sound out of any of them;
Red Hat 9.0, windows 98, Knoppix 3.1.

Next, when I try to start windows 98 with onboard LAN enabled, I get a
windows protection error. The only way I can get into windows is
either to disable onboard ethernet, or go into safe mode.

I have read a lot about solving these problems, but nothing seems to
work for me. Any Ideas?

 

[Paul]

I recently bought an Asus P4S8X-X, and have not nothing but trouble
from it. First of all, the sound doesnt work. I have tried several
operating systems, and havent ever had any sound out of any of them;
Red Hat 9.0, windows 98, Knoppix 3.1.

Next, when I try to start windows 98 with onboard LAN enabled, I get a
windows protection error. The only way I can get into windows is
either to disable onboard ethernet, or go into safe mode.

I have read a lot about solving these problems, but nothing seems to
work for me. Any Ideas?

Look for the 2x5 header called FP_AUDIO on the motherboard. There
should be two jumpers on the header. One jumper from BLINE_OUT_L to
Line_Out_L and the second jumper from BLINE_OUT_R to Line_Out_R.
With the jumpers in place (and no case audio cabling connected to
the header), plug your amplified speakers or a set of headphones
into the lime colored connector on the back of the computer.
Then try your audio testing again.

There is an SIS900 Ethernet driver package lan_sp116b.zip on the Asus
website (10.7MB). Have you tried it ? Also you would need
"Onboard LAN" [Enabled] in the BIOS. The LAN media access controller
(MAC) is built into the Southbridge, and a Realtek PHY chip drives
the Ethernet cable. The SIS900 is thus hidden inside the Southbridge.
If it annoys you, just buy a $10 Realtek RTL8139 based LAN card in
the bargain bin at your local computer store and disable the SIS900.
The RTL8139 is good enough for connecting to a cable or ADSL modem.

ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/lan/sislan/lan_sp116b.zip

HTH,
Paul