Front Panal audio jack is not working, please help

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Hi Guys, I just finished building my new pc, and i installed vista and all the drivers for the motherboard, asus P5E VM HDMI, but my front panal audio connectors are not working. Realtek software says, that nothing is being detected. Please help....
 
Is it connected correctly on the mobo? You sure? If it is then check on Asus site, maybe you need a bios update / later drivers for vista in order to get it going ;)
 
hey, thank for the help, just figured out, that the new chassis is not hd audio compatible, meaning, that turning the audio front panal toe ac 97 did the trick, me really stupid...
 
Kewl, BTW The HD Audio is not dependant on your chassis, your mobo needs to have a sound chip that supports HD audio ;)
 
xeo57 said:
Kewl, BTW The HD Audio is not dependant on your chassis, your mobo needs to have a sound chip that supports HD audio ;)
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the physical front panel connectors of the chassis also have to be hdaudio compatible, else jack detection wont work.

there IS a difference between an ac97 case and a hdaudio compatible case, with regards to the front panel connectors.
 
Well the case u probably referring to I've never heard off. AFAIK the connector os the same, you just have two different ports on the mobo to plug it in ;)
 
I think in the HD audio front sockets there is a second contact connecting to ground on the jack. If the two short out then the mobo knows a device is plugged in. Then it can route the relevant signal to that audio sockets.

Without the extra contact it won't detect a new attached device and won't route the signal. Consequently you have to disable jack detection on the front panel via software.

Realtek Audio manager==>Audio I/o==>Connector Settings (The spanner icon)==>Disable front audio jack detection:p
 
you can find the different pinouts here
http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/sb/CS-015851.htm

although the intel doc says they are pin compatible (i.e. the plugs are the same) most things will still work if you disable jack detection, however, you wont be able to channel two different audio streams (one to the front and one to the back) and most likely the front microphone wont work
 
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