A7N266-VM W2K pro using onboard sound setup?

[chameleon]

Does anyone have an A7N266-VM with W2K Pro and using the onboard sound working? How do you have it setup in the BIOS and/or in W2K Pro. I can't get mine to work at all. It detects and says everything is working, but no sound will comes out. I've tested the speakers and they work great, the volume controls are right, the playback setting are right. The ASUS book really bites that came with the board and the ASUS website is crap. Any help would greatly be appreciated. Thanks.

 

[mechBgon]

I just built four A7N266-VM systems for work. Only one of the users had speakers, but sound is working in Win2k. I didn't mess with the BIOS settings, so what you might do is try resetting the BIOS to default, for starters, and make sure you got the speakers plugged into the correct port, the green one (sorry if that is waaay too obvious). In my situation, I installed the nForce drivers from the CD (installation took two reboots to complete) and then hit Windows Update, which had a newer driver for it.

The other thing to delve into is the Multimedia settings in Control Panel, in case something's got Mute enabled in there... good luck!

 

[chameleon]

Yeah, I got the green plug plugged into the green socket. ;-) I more curious about your bios config. Or what drivers are being run. I record music on my PC, so I'm pretty familar with sound setup on PC's. This PC was for a friend on mine. I thought I would be smart and get them a all in one mobo. Big mistake. Next time I'll stick with individual componets. Anyway I'm stumped, it says everything is running properly just no sound comes out. Maybe the MCP digital dolby controller should be disabled? Lookin' for anything at this point.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

I have it running as a 3rd LAN box using XP pro at the moment and I just couldn't get the integrated MAC controller to use the internet, it would see my home network though. I ended up slapping in a PCI LAN card I had laying around to resolve the issue, and don't even ask about 98SE! I made it play nice(aside from the same damn issue) but it was more work than I've done on an install in years.However, I will strike the win98SE complaint since the board wasn't designed for it in the first place Anyways, with XP the sound works excellent and the only thing I have disabled in the bios is the MAC controller. Sorry I'm no help with the W2K and audio issue though I just posted to let you know others are finding this board to be a bit buggy as well, Good luck with it

 

[mechBgon]

If I get a chance, I'll pop one open Friday (I'm off tomorrow) and look at the jumpers for the front-panel audio. On page 28 of the manual, it shows the location of these pins, and I seem to recall them having some jumper caps on some of them. I'll rummage in the BIOS and note the settings there to compare notes with you.

Sorry to hear about your uncooperative board, DAPUNISHER I hope that doesn't happen to ours, 'cause I'll be living with them for quite a while! We're 4 for 4 so far, with the only glitch being that Win2k setup from CD runs with no video for a couple of minutes as it grabs drivers off the CD at the beginning of setup.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

No big deal on the LAN problem mechBgon the card I'm using was free and this Nforce is no more buggy than some VIA chipsets ya know? Anyways, I wanted to see if you guys can confirm the following manual SNAFUs are the same with your manual as they are with mine (this manual makes my old K7S5A's look detailed and accurate ) {1}The bsel0 and bsel1 jumper settings are listed backwards in the manual {2} the manual shows a CLRTC jumper but my board doesn't have one (I would have to pop the battery out to clear it){3} The AAPANEL1 in the manual is shown as being parallel to the back of the board and on the board it's at 90 degrees. BTW my AAPANEL1 is capped on both line outs and you can tell because in between them is the NC with only 1 pin. Some other quirky things I've noticed with this board is that to boot from ATAPI drives you can't change the boot device order, you have to disable the HDD to boot from the ATAPI drive, and if you hit DEL before the bios has detected the ATAPI drive it isn't available as a boot device so you must wait that extra couple of seconds for the bios to detect it first.
On the positive side the sound and video on this board are definitely the best integrated solution I've used yet, and the SPDIF card being included is a nice plus.I'm very interested to hear if you have had the same experience or if my board is a reject

 

[mechBgon]

So far our four have been working out ok I took a peek under the hood of one of them while I was replacing the CD-ROM drive and the two pairs of pins closest to the front are capped, and I wonder if that could have something to do with chameleon's troubles... if they need to be capped and are not capped on his board. In the BIOS, both the audio and Dolby listings are set to Auto.

Our AAPANEL headers are like yours. We also have an undocumented cooling-fan header by the DIMM slots, which made me very happy. It lacks the CLRTC pins and the BSEL0 and BSEL1 are indeed backwards, I'm getting 133/133 with the jumpers on the rear pins.

The board does seem adequately fast, and I enabled nView's "transparent-window" feature to see how well it would work with system memory as the video memory. It doesn't stutter, glides them windows around just fine As long as they stay working, I'm quite satisfied (and the users like them too).

 

[chameleon]

My AAPanel did have two caps on it and I removed them, why, cause why would there be caps on something a external device would plug into. When I was going thru the very frustrating starting the computer and nothing appearing. I thought maybe those caps had something to do with it, but later I read on another forum about how the nice looking Asus manual is all but worthless do to major typos. The CPU and memory jumpers are backwards. Man what a peice of work. Its crazy cause I really like ASUS mobos but they really dropped the ball with this one. Anyway I bet thats the problem, if one you guys could tell me what pins were capped on the AAPanel I would really appreciate it. It has to be why the sound isn't working. I really don't think its a bios issue, my bios is set just like yours. Thanks.

 

[mechBgon]

Sure thing. There are three pairs of pins on my AAPANEL header. Cap the front pair and the middle pair, leave the rear pair uncapped. I hope that fixes it!

 

[tart666]

I built a system two weeks ago for my girlfriend's friend. I liked the mobo so much I bought another for myself since I had all these spare parts laying around, just needed the mobo and CPU.

I enabled everything integrated in the BIOS, installed w2k, asus drivers from the CD and : voila! it worked. I was impressed.

NOTE: aside from the panel/jumpers everything you did has produced a working machine in my setup. perhaps a DOA

my 2 ¢

Toni