Problem getting onboard sound to work.

[Worf101]

I've an ASUS A8v Deluxe 939 MoBo. It has a lot of bells and whistles on the board which have thus far made my life a breeze except for one area.

I went with an M-Audio PCI sound card and I'm less than happy with it. The MoBo has built in 7.1 but everytime I try and activate it I'm stymied. The MoBo support disk was supposed to come with a Realtek Audio/mixing application and driver. It didn't. All the downloads from the Asus Website have proven to be unsuccessul. I get icons but no .exe program.

Calls to tech support have been unsuccsessful. So I'm wondering if anyone else can help me with this. Do I need to uninstall the M-Audio card and drivers completely and work it from the bios forward? Any idea where else I can get a copy of the Realtek audio program?

Any help would be appreciated, I'll also be posting this on the Sound Card board.

Thanks in advance.

Da Worfster

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[davemar14]

I just downloaded the Audio drive for the A8V board. I went under download, typed the board in, and clicked drivers. I downloaded the first item (15 MB). It was a zip file, I extracted it, and then clicked setup.exe. It opened right up for installation.

 

[davemar14]

I just downloaded the Audio drive for the A8V board. I went under download, typed the board in, and clicked drivers. I downloaded the first item (15 MB). It was a zip file, I extracted it, and then clicked setup.exe. It opened right up for installation.

 

[davemar14]

I just downloaded the Audio drive for the A8V board. I went under download, typed the board in, and clicked drivers. I downloaded the first item (15 MB). It was a zip file, I extracted it, and then clicked setup.exe. It opened right up for installation.

 

[Cybercraig]

Help me Lord, I've developed triple-vision! :lol: Check the Real-tec site and see if they have the drivers for this chipset.



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[davemar14]

Sry about that. For some reason my comp would just sit there uploading. I clicked stop, but I guess that didn't work. My bad.

 

[Worf101]

I did the exact same thing I don't know how many times, but I get drivel. It extracts but I get no program that walks me through set up and installation of drivers and alike. I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

Da Worfster

PS, what Browser did you use?

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[Makaveli7]

I'd recommend checking your extractor or unzipping program is up to date, or even try another one (winace or winzip). I've found before when unzipping with older versions files can literally disappear from zipped packages

 

[davemar14]

I got WinZip 9.0 and it worked OK. Try download.com for Winzip, and then try extracting again. I am using Internet Explorer 6.0.

 

[Worf101]

I'll try that. I also got an address for the RealTek site, I'll try downloading it from there as well. Man this is annoying. But my extractor may be screwing up files.

Thanks for the information.

Da Worfster

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[Cybercraig]

I always use ZipMagic. I've found it to just plain be the best. I don't mind paying for it if it works the best.


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[Crashman]

Most of MY drivers don't have .exe files. Instead you go to device manager, click on the device, then properties, driver, update driver, have disk, and select the location of the folder the files are located in. You don't need any .exe, the .inf and .vxd files should do.

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[Worf101]

Couldn't find an .exe on the application file either. I've baskically given up on ever running the onboard sound. Can't get it to work. I'll sit tight with the M-audio for a while I guess.

Da Worfster

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[sparky853]

OK. Last idea....

Download and unzip the installation files from the website to your computer (put them somewhere easy to find, such as C:\temp or similar)

Totally uninstall the old M-Audio sound card and all associated drivers.

Reboot your computer, go into the BIOS, and enable your onboard sound. If you are unsure, check your mobo manual.

When windows boots up, HOPEFULLY you get a new hardware found message. If it asks for a disk to install the hardware, point it to the directory you put the downloaded files in.

If you don't get the hardware message, go to Start-->Settings-->Control Panel-->System-->Device Manager and see if there is anything listed with a yellow question mark beside it. If so, double click the item, and Update Driver, and point it to the files you downloaded.

Hopefully this helps. Good Luck.

Spec:
Intel P4 2.4B
MSI 645E Max-U Mobo
1GB DDR333
R9600XT 128MB
SB Live 5.1
WD 60GB
Maxtor 120GB
LG DVD+-R/RW
WIN2K PRO SP4