Can't get sound on my ECS K7S5A board

[austin316]

Alright, I just got a new harddrive since my other one crapped out. I formatted the drive, installed Windows XP on it and everything is working perfectly, except I can't get any sound. I went to the device manager screen and tried to update the driver that way, and it said it worked, (the yield sign is now gone) yet I still don't get any sound. Could someone point me in the direction of the correct drivers to use, along with how to install them over the ones I chose. Thanks in advance.

 

[pspada]

Is the volume turned up? Are you plugged into the correct socket? Is the audio enabled in the bios?

 

[Peter]

First of all you need to sort out what version (not revision!) of the mainboard you have. There are two different versions regarding the sound - either with basic stereo codec, or with a 4-channel C-Media 9738.

As soon as you know that, you install the _right_ driver for it, and you're set. Wrong driver, no sound.

 

[austin316]

ok, thanks for the replies.

Is the volume turned up? ----> yes
Are you plugged into the correct socket? -------> yes (if you mean is the speaker cable in the green socket
Is the audio enabled in the bios? -----> yes
version? how do I find out what version I have. I bought the board Jan. 2002 and it is the one with only USB 1.0.

 

[austin316]

thanks for the help. got it working. I think I had to virst install the via drivers, then the audio driver. thanks again.