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Changed cases and clean XP install = no audio.

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Noya

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Hi, I stripped out the aging inards of my PC (Opteron 165, Biostar T-Force mobo, 4 DIMMS, 7600GT) and placed them in an older case I had lying around w/a DVD-RW and 160gb HDD to sell in lieu of some good deals this month.

I re-installed XP Pro SP2, installed my mobo drivers and GPU driver = No audio. XP shows the Realtek chipset as working. I uninstalled the driver and downloaded the newest one, same thing happens.

I've also checked the BIOS already.

Any ideas?
 
Do you mean the front panel audio isn't working (maybe you forgot to plug the case headers in)? Or the ports on the actual motherboard aren't working?
 
Ports on the motherboard.

This setup was rock stable right before I switched cases. It would be on for weeks at a time between reboots while gaming, editing and encoding.
 
IF you had front panel audio cable from your old case hooked up to the front audio header of the mainboard & you forgot to hook it up to your present case then the jumpers shorting out the first two and third two pins on the front panel header( on the mainboard) are not there to enable the rear audio jacks. Hence, no audio from the rear jacks. =)

Make sure the jumpers on the front audio header aren't missing if not front panel audio cable is attached to the mainboard. The header will be marked with "FP_AUDIO" or similiar. Your mainbaord manual will ist where this connector is and it always looks the same and have 9 pins.

The jumpers should be connected like the example below where the lines represent jumpers and the dots represent naked pins:

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Let us know if that helped.
 
i know fp-audio can not work if you connect a hd_audio header to a board that only provides ac97. along the lines of what OCC said, if you have the wrong header connected for fp-audio, jack/port auto-sensing could be in a daze and not letting the rear ports to work.
 
Originally posted by: OCChronic
IF you had front panel audio cable from your old case hooked up to the front audio header of the mainboard & you forgot to hook it up to your present case then the jumpers shorting out the first two and third two pins on the front panel header( on the mainboard) are not there to enable the rear audio jacks. Hence, no audio from the rear jacks. =)

Make sure the jumpers on the front audio header aren't missing if not front panel audio cable is attached to the mainboard. The header will be marked with "FP_AUDIO" or similiar. Your mainbaord manual will ist where this connector is and it always looks the same and have 9 pins.

The jumpers should be connected like the example below where the lines represent jumpers and the dots represent naked pins:

<< |.|::

Let us know if that helped.
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Thanks, you just saved me $20 for a replacement sound card 😀

I don't ever remember there being jumpers on the audio header...luckily I had an old sub-2.0ghz P4/mobo lying around I yanked the jumpers off of. But this case that I transplanted it into doesn't have front audio ports...so the issue never previously came up.
 
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