Integrated motherboard sound problems..

Doc_Savage

Somebody please say they know something to help me out here!

say something even if it seems obvious!!

i just put together my new pc...

The motherboard is an MSI K8N SLI-FI

it's got integrated 7.1: (7.1 channel audio codec RealTek ALC850)

i'm awaiting the shipment of my X-FI platinum but in the mean time i'm gonna use this.. problem is the damn thing won't work for me!

i can't get it to show up in the hardware manager in the control panel and i've installed just about everything google turned up for me!

basically i've done everything short of flash the Bios.:(

there has to be something stupid i'm not doing!

Mod's please help!

feylya

Have you enabled it in the bios?

Doc_Savage

yep!

on auto!

there's only auto and disable...

but i know it's something simple like that!:rolleyes:

feylya

Installed mobo drivers?

Doc_Savage

Chipset drivers?
first thing i did!

masteroftherealm

Seperate audio drivers independant of the chipset and the audio chip does not reside on the actual chipset

Doc_Savage

they were bundled together on the cd... lan "audio" chipset ide sata etc.

i'm at a loss

ive tried the ones from:
msi home
realtek home
the original cd!

no joy!!

masteroftherealm

go looking for a seperate driver online(Happened with my sony)

Doc_Savage

masteroftherealm wrote:

go looking for a seperate driver online(Happened with my sony)

read above....
got all of them!

poggy

the nvidia nforce drivers can come with sound drivers as well. see if u have them installed. if so uninstall and reinstall the realtech ones. i had a similar problem with mine and this did the trick.

Doc_Savage

just tried that thanks!

bloody thing still ain't going!:(

it's not appearing in the device manager....

i can see it in the bios though...

is it more than just drivers i wonder?

Dman_15

have you anoter pci soundcard lying around. Plug that in and see if windows picks up a new device?

Doc_Savage

i don't but i plugged in a firewire card and modem into the pci slots and it picks up and installs the software for them straight away!

esmurph

if you have front panel audio you may want to check if you wired it correctly. If you haven't all of the audio won't work.

Doc_Savage

just tried that... wired it unwired it.. now i have it bypassed with jumpers.. still not showing up in the device manager!

gline

had the same problem with my sckt 754 msi board, looks like the sound is knackered on it

mine was working fine and stopped one day, reinstalled everything and it still didnt work. never worked since... mobo issue i'd say

timeout

Try starting in safemode and see if there are any conflicts. Sometimes they show here and not in normal mode. Short of that sounds to me like it might be a dead motherboard also.

Timeout

Doc_Savage

thank's lads!

i'll rma the damn thing if i run out of patience with it!

Funsterdelux

Sounds like a piece of the pervertable, what is it with you hearing a little voice saying "Build it and he ll come" is that it?