Asus P4PE Sound issues

[clevere1]

I may not be in the right forum .. but ..

Does anyone with a P4PE have sound trouble? Such as, popping from the speakers randomly, being able to play some sounds, but not others, or just having the sound suddenly disappear?

I've come to the point that I can reinstall the drivers, and the sound works for while .. but it continues to cut out. I've even tried upgrading, and going back on BIOS revisions to no end ... This board has the Soundmax built in sound...

 

[amdskip]

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There are 3 links dealing with what you have. Link 3 sums it up best:

Evidently this is an issue for this motherboard. There are several usenet postings (do a google search) about this problem. I was planning on buying this motherboard because the audio was supposed to be 'high end" with the AD "sound max", and the specs seemed impressive. The audio has even received a couple of favorable reviews. The microphone was especially supposed to be good so you didn't need a noise cancelling mike for speech recognition.

The way that the noisy audio has been fixed with this board is to disable the onboard audio and stick in a different soundcard. (a bummer). You could try to send it to ASUS for warranty repair, and they might would send a quiet board back. They have to be aware of this problem by now.

Telling is that ASUS hasn't used the AD "sound max" in any of their new boards (as far as I am aware) and going back to the standard chip that they all use.

I have since changed my mind and will go with a different board, even though I really liked the feature set that the p4pe has. But there are better performing boards that don't have shaky audio.

 

[clevere1]

Thanks Amdskip .. I'm glad to know that I'm not the only person with troubles.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

I have zero problems with mine since upping the AGP/PCI speed a couple notches above default to resolve the bug in the lock for this board. The bug is that when at the default 66/33 it's not locked so by the time you hit 150fsb the audio cuts out completely, so if you're overclocking at all it would explain your issues and that's the fix. If no overclocking then have you tried the latest drivers? BTW there's some software packs for the soundmax that make it a better solution but they charge for them which I think is BS. I wouldn't normally suggest this but because it's wrong to extort more cash for the functionality of the audio on this board to be what it should be already I'll mention that if you know where to look you could most likely get the audio packs for nada

 

[RevoluChe]

I have the same mobo and had the same experience. I just popped in my old SB Live card, and it sounded great, and I got a big performance boost. I just think the audio chipset isn't any good on this board.

 

[clevere1]

Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER
I have zero problems with mine since upping the AGP/PCI speed a couple notches above default to resolve the bug in the lock for this board. The bug is that when at the default 66/33 it's not locked so by the time you hit 150fsb the audio cuts out completely, so if you're overclocking at all it would explain your issues and that's the fix. If no overclocking then have you tried the latest drivers? BTW there's some software packs for the soundmax that make it a better solution but they charge for them which I think is BS. I wouldn't normally suggest this but because it's wrong to extort more cash for the functionality of the audio on this board to be what it should be already I'll mention that if you know where to look you could most likely get the audio packs for nada

I never overlock

 

[DAPUNISHER]

It's possible the overvolting damaged the board, look for a PCI soundcard, you can find 'em very cheap in the FS/FT forum.