ASUS P6T onboard sound problem

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Ok, so i've been through a number of OS' on this pc now and i just can't get the darn onboard sound to work!!!

Tried Xp 64 & 32bit, Windows 7 x64 and now i have Vista installed

The drivers get installed fine, no hellow exclamation marks in device manager and in the audio properties it shows that the drivers are installed and working (the little level thing goes up and depending on the whats being played).


Ok, well the thing is, although windows seems to say everything is working, i just can't hear anything from my speakers i.e. Nothing is being output to the speakers. I tried connecting my speaker via the RCA jack at the back of my mobo and also to the srandard 3.5mm jacks in 2.0 channel and 5.1 but nothing seems to work. :x

Any ideas on how to go about solving this?

Thanks

/excuse the typos, i'm tired
 
Try this:
Open Windows media player
Start playing you song.
Click the little speaker next to the volume at the bottom.
I am assuming you did check your sound properties to ensure volumes are up and not muted.
:)
 
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Yes, i did do that RoMark (lol)
;)

Yes, my speakers are working.

And yes , the pc was plugged in and it did go on, so did my speakers, monitor, keyboard, CPU, RAM, mobo, DVDRW, GPU, HDDs etc :p
 
It's enabled. Tried the front panel too and also with headphones but still nothing

Weirdly though, when i unplug/plug in the speakers at the rear or in front, the realtek software detects it and i get a pop up message. It's just that nothing gets output to the speakers/headphones. And yes, the back panel sound was set as default audio device
 
Silverlight said:
It's enabled. Tried the front panel too and also with headphones but still nothing

Weirdly though, when i unplug/plug in the speakers at the rear or in front, the realtek software detects it and i get a pop up message. It's just that nothing gets output to the speakers/headphones. And yes, the back panel sound was set as default audio device
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Try to disable this option in the Realtek control panel - I think it's called "auto-sense" or something. This might help.
 
RoMark said:
Try this:
Open Windows media player
Start playing you song.
Click the little speaker next to the volume at the bottom.
I am assuming you did check your sound properties to ensure volumes are up and not muted.
:)
Click to expand...

I was actually serious. I'm not sure why but it happened a couple of times with clean installs. Same symptoms as described in your OP. Both instances I had to click the speaker icon to remove the mute.

Is it a new motherboard? I installed a new motherboard and had similar problem. Eventually I found a surface mount resistor that was basically destroyed. It was close to the sound chip. The driver installed correctly, but no sound. When I contacted the supplier they did not want to swap out, because they don't cover damage to motherboard. I got pass that by BS'ing them. So maybe the only option is to replace motherboard.
 
The closest thing i can find to that is "enable auto popup dialog, when device has been plugged in", if i uncheck the checkbox next to it i still have the problem :/

Thanks RoMark, i'm also starting to think it's the mobo that's faulty. It's brand new as it's a replacement board from Frontosa. If i can't get it sorted by Monday will have to RMA :(
 
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Silverlight said:
The closest thing i can find to that is "enable auto popup dialog, when device has been plugged in", if i uncheck the checkbox next to it i still have the problem :/

Thanks RoMark, i'm also starting to think it's the mobo that's faulty. It's brand new as it's a replacement board from Frontosa. If i can't get it sorted by Monday will have to RMA :(
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i think romark meant to unmute the windows speaker icon
try that.
 
:erm: the first half of that post was directed to tim

The second half was directed to RoMark. As mentioned earlier, the sound is not muted, windows shows that there is sound being played with the little green bar that goes up and down when playing audio, it's just that no sound comes out the speakers/headphones.

The speakers and headphones work fine on other pcs though
 
The last thing I would do before blaming the motherboard is to install vlc or any other media player. If it still does not work then I'm pretty sure it is the m/b.
Don't you just hate it when these things happen? Especially over weekends.

Off topic.
Years back when I did the A+ course, the first thing the guy asked us was, Why did we want to do the course, what did we hope to achieve. Well, I said that if I had to work on a pc I wanted know what I was doing and I did not want to struggle when I try to do repairs. He told me that me that I won't achieve my goal and that I was always going to struggle with a pc. At that time I thought he was full of sh*t, after all I was paying R7500.00 for this course.
Well he was right. There is always a pc that just rub you the wrong way.
What is just about the first thing you learn as a pc techie? Don't fit that side panel, before you are absolutely sure that everything works.
:D
 
I forgot to mention that the all bars and levels continue will function while a sound is played although the media player or windows speaker output is muted.
 
They'll function but if it were muted it would be grey, it's green which indicates it's playing it through the sound device.

Anyhow, i'm just packing this mobo away, spent too much data and time on it sigh
 
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