ecs mb and xp pro no sound

**DSCHENEK** · February 28th, 2004, 11:06 PM

I Am A Novice Computer Builder But I Have Noticed This Occurance A Few Times.

I Am Using An Amd Athlon Chip With An Ecs K7s5a Mb With Win. Xp Pro

I Cannot Get The On Board Sound To Work.

Made Sure Enabled In Bios, Reloaded Drivers Etc.

I Have Been Adding Sound Cards To My Past Units But I Don't Think I Should Have To.

Any Help???

Thanx

Dan

**kato2274** · February 28th, 2004, 11:15 PM

Originally Posted by DSCHENEK

I Cannot Get The On Board Sound To Work.

can you elaborate. Exactly what does this mean.

my personal experience with ECS boards is that the onboard sound has no preamp and when you hook up a pair of non amplified speakers, you can't hear anything. but when you hook up self powered amplified speakers that have their own volume control, it works, though it sometimes sounds a little distorted.

**confus-ed** · February 29th, 2004, 04:19 AM

What did you want him to say about "I Cannot Get The On Board Sound To Work" - seems abundantly clear to me !?!

Have you tried bios flashes ? This motherboard pre-dates xp's launch & I can't see 'designed for xp' mentioned anywhere - have you tried running the upgarde advisor that comes in xp (tip: make sure you have any updated files that it needs).

IRQ & memory allocations which often affect whether a device will or won't work are handled by bios, if that can't do its 'stuff' for your onboard sound under xp then you won't get sound even with a 'good' driver ... Here's an 'appropriate' link @ecs - if it never did get 'designed for xp' designation that means acpi (another thing that affects bios allocations) won't work correctly, it may be possible to get it all 'good' by not using acpi bios.

**kato2274** · February 29th, 2004, 07:09 AM

Originally Posted by confus-ed

What did you want him to say about "I Cannot Get The On Board Sound To Work" - seems abundantly clear to me !?!

yeah but your confus-ed. there are lots of ways that it "can't work" and having symptons would be helpful. XP could be saying there is a problem installing drivers, it could not be detected at all, it could be detected and drivers installed fine, but no sound at all etc etc etc etc. vague descriptions may work when the tech is actually going to see the machine, but not so much in these cases.

**confus-ed** · February 29th, 2004, 07:25 AM

Your 'physic tech aura' or mine is on the blink ! (I just did a thread in the lounge on that .. ) ... my 'aura' currently detects this is being attempted on a non xp 'certified' motherboard & he either needs new bios or to put 9x on it like its 'designed' for - or spend a load of time 'fiddling' with xp to get it working ..

Only teasing ... more info is always good !! - saves my 'intermittent' 'Physic Tech Aura' having to come on-line

**Sniper40691** · April 12th, 2004, 10:59 AM

Kato has a strong position - asking for more information

Dunno about XP but -

I have two K7S5A Pro's running currently.
Both Win2k, one SP3 one SP4

One has amplified speakers - sounds great
One has non-amped speakers - with volume all the way up, can just barely hear it

What _I_ am unable to do is get it to work with old DOS games like
Duke3D (Duke needs to know "card" type, addr and irq/dma)