sound card help

[whewa]

I just switched my motherboard out from my old case to a new on. Everything is working great except I am not getting any sounds. It appears that sounds are playing but I can't hear them. I've checked my speakers over about a hundred times, used 2 different sets and still no luck. I've gone into bios and checked to see it was enabled.

the thing that I am really confused about is the CD in connection on my motherboard, my motherboard is from a hp and while in the hp it didn't have a connection from the cd rom drive to the motherboard, but still played sounds. I set it up the same as in the hp but it doesn't play sounds now, also i have tried using the cable from the cdrom to the mother board, only problem is that it doesnt' have anything labeled CD in, but instead it has to similar connections called cd1 and aux 1. I am pretty new to this computer stuff, but I am having a great time learning, its just sound has been a problem on all 3 of my computer builds, can anyone help?

 

[Tirrem]

Well Ill try to help. From what I remember from old systems that cable from the cd rom to mb sound card is mainly for audio cds that was back with windows 98, now days you shouldnt really need that cable but you might try it. Also look at your motherboard and look for a motherboard brand. The go to there website and try and find your motherboard and read the info they have on it, might even find some mb drivers that will help.

 

[whewa]

thanks for the help, i'll look for the drivers. This mobo is from an hp that I salvaged and well...hp isn't really willing to help people mess around with their products. I did some extreme searching and did find a manual for the motherboard but it really doesn't say much other that what i have already figured out.

 

[Curse]

if you cant get help here a site i used to use for a lot of my problems was computing.net

 

[reek]

When you find your MB info, does it have on-board audio?

Go to Device Manager: right click on my computer, properties, and then the hardware tab and click the device manager button. What does it say for sound (when you expand it)? Is there a yellow ! in there?

 

[whewa]

it says

audio codecs
legency audio drivers
legency video capture devices
realtek ac'97 audio
video codecs


no yellow !


and yes it does have onboard audio

 

[reek]

Ok there should be a place in the BIOS where you can disable your on-board audio.

 

[whewa]

yeah, but see I am trying to use the onboard card, i've got no other card in the system, i've made sure it was inabled, the system appears to be playing sounds, it just doesn't, i've looked the speakers over and over, used 2 different sets. Could the actually place where i hook the speakers up have broken?

 

[noahTHEpurdy]

Dumb question, but this has happened to me before, Have you made sure the sound is turned up the whole way in the sound options via the little speaker on the system tray?

PS: get on aim.

 

[whewa]

yes

 

[whewa]

been doing some research, i guess there is a huge problem with the onboard card i have
its a realtek ac'97, i guess a lot of people have issues with it and the company refuses to admit it has a problem. so I just purchased a new card, it is coming in 3 days, we will see how that works out...

 

[Curse]

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been doing some research, i guess there is a huge problem with the onboard card i have
its a realtek ac'97, i guess a lot of people have issues with it and the company refuses to admit it has a problem. so I just purchased a new card, it is coming in 3 days, we will see how that works out...
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wow was it made by SOE by any chance?