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Asus Z170 Por Gaming speaker issue

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Aug 7, 2016
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Hi everyone, I'm new to this community and also new to pc building. I've been building my pc this whole day and everything seemed fine before I realized that there was no sound coming from mobo. I can hear sound with headphone plugged in but no luck when unplug it. I was wondering does this mobo come with built speaker. I did see something called supremeFX in the mobo annual, don't know if it is for digital output or speaker though.

Forgive me if this is a easy and stupid question.

My build is :

Asus z170 pro gaming;
intel i5 6600k
asus strip gtx 1070;
gskill ripjaws 8GB*2;
250SSD+1TB HDD;

Like I said everything else is just fine and I boot it up, installed windows10 on it. Just fine except the weird silence. Please help me out. I've reinstalled the drivers from asus website , also tried micorsofft auto update driver, no help. From the boot menu, onboard device HD audio is enabled.

Thanks a lot!

BTW, no beep at booting.
 
Solution
You already know that you need headphones to hear sound output from your PC, so by the same token you need to buy a set of PC speakers and connect them to the "speaker out" port at the back of the PC if not using headphones.

The audio driver is only for the sound chip or sound card to work, you still have to plug something in to it (headphones or speakers) to hear anything!

The internal speaker (if mobo has one) is only for emitting "beep" sounds (ie BIOS beeps for hardware fault diagnosis).
You already know that you need headphones to hear sound output from your PC, so by the same token you need to buy a set of PC speakers and connect them to the "speaker out" port at the back of the PC if not using headphones.

The audio driver is only for the sound chip or sound card to work, you still have to plug something in to it (headphones or speakers) to hear anything!

The internal speaker (if mobo has one) is only for emitting "beep" sounds (ie BIOS beeps for hardware fault diagnosis).
 
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