Asus A7N266-C AC6 Sound Problem

[Overlord2k]

Ok, I'm at a loss. I have a problem with the sound output from the AC6 card. The only channel that works is the Front left/right channel. I've tried plugging in my speakers in the Rear left/right channel and the Center channel and no sound emits. I've gone to the Nvidia nForce APU toolbox panel and enabled the quadraphonic speaker setup and even tried the Surround, 5.1 Surround, and the 7.1 Sorround and only result is the front speakers are the only ones working. I've also tried tinkering with the settings in the "Output" tab trying the possible combinations between the Digital Output and the Analog Output select boxes to no avail. I've d/l'ed the latest drivers for both the nforce chipset drivers and the AC6 drivers again no progess. Did another user of this motherboard come across this type of problem? What was your fix? My Computer setup is as follows:

Athlon XP 1600
512mb Crucial DDR
Windows XP Professional (All updates loaded)
Geforce 2 GTS
IBM 40 gig 75GXP (I know people say these are trouble, got them before I knew about them )

I know this board is a new release and there might be some "known" issues. I'm wondering if anybody else has run into this type of problem with this board.

Thanks,
A Dumbfounded User

 

[yoyo123]

I joined this forum just to reply to you. I just bought the A7N-E. It uses the nvidia onboard sound like I believe yours does. I also cannot get the analog rear and front channels to work. As far as I know, the digital surround works fine. I don't have a digital speakers to test this on though.

http://www.digit-life.com/articles/nvidianforcemcp/

This article says that they could not get the rear and center channels to work because they were not enabled yet in the driver. So maybe it is a driver problem. If you go about 2/3 of the way down you can see a screen shot of a driver with it enabled (This is from anand's review)

I am going to call asus tech support to see if they have anything to say about it.

TS

 

[PC Klein]

I believe that the center and rear channels are not yet enabled in Win2K, XP. Contact Nvidia to confirm.

 

[Heretik]

The rear outputs do and don't work. They will work if the sofware playing music/movies is capable of downmixing to 4 channel output (such as PowerDVD). There are beta drivers floating around that enable 4 speaker output on all sources, but when I tried them, it sounded like a$$.

 

[yoyo123]

Where do you get the beta drivers? my do not work no mater what is playing or what I use (power dvd or anything) I would be interested in trying the drivers.

Ts

 

[Heretik]

They are actually a (beta) set of nForce drivers.......I have no idea where exactly they came from, so use them at your own risk (as always)

http://www.fsc-pc.de/support/drvupload.asp?DRV=24100&Info=Download&5825&4891&LG=

 

[WetWilly]

Try nVidia's nForce page for the new drivers. Among the new release's highlights:

Rear Stereo Support

Download here

 

[Heretik]

Ahhhh, finally a new driver release
Thanks for the heads up!