I just installed a used Asrock K7S41GX board which is working just fine exept I have no sound through my external speakers. The internal speaker on the the board beeps on startup but nothing after that. Do I need to reset the bios? If so, the only way I know that's easiest is to remove the battery.
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May 18, 2009
- When I booted this a.m. I heard no beepsMay 18, 2009
- I do have one short beep on cold boot and restart.
In D/M I have 5 items listed under sound, video and game controllers, all with no ? marks May 18, 2009
- I have one short beep on startup or restart. Under D/M I have 5 items listed under sound, video, and game controllers, all with no ? marksMay 19, 2009
- I have XP. In sounds and audio I have no controls because under "volume" it says "no sound device". When I click the sounds tab and pick one to play a sound I get an error message "Windows cannot play the sound%SystemRoot%\media\WindowsXP error.wav sound card may be in use"May 19, 2009
- No. On startup, I pushed the F2 button, it hesitated a bit but then continued with normal boot procedure. I couldn't get it to go into the setup mode. As you can tell I'm not an expert when it comes to changing parameters in this way.May 19, 2009
- I installed the ac97 driver last night with no change in sound. I do have broadband, thankfully! The speakers are plugged into the corrcect jack. I was only going to change the bios because I don't know if any changes were done prior to me getting this used mobo. I figure that by removing the battery and waiting it would reset back to factory defaults - is this something I should do after installing the driver as you suggest? Also, will this driver install over the existing driver if ,in fact, it did install?Aug 22, 2009
- Hi Harry. Sorry it's taken so long in getting back to you about the above problem... I just today got into the setup screen and checked the audio area. It had "auto" set so I changed to "enabled" and did a cold start on the cpu. Still no sound, so I guess you're correct that the built in sound card is corrupt! You mention one from newegg... do you have a model# ? Also, how, or should I, turn off or disable the on board sound card? Will the new one just plug into a slot?
Thanks
Dave