Gigabyte GA-7VTXE help please.

[Wezza]

Alright. I bought the Gigabyte GA-7VTXE motherboard with an AMD 1800+ xp processor with 512MB DDR. I also bought a Hercules 3D Prophet 4500. The problem is that I have no sound. I installed the drivers off the cd that came with the motherboard and I still get nothing. It shows up as Avance AC'97 audio in control panel/system yet nothing is in the playback and recording tabs in control panel/multimedia. This motherboard has an onboard sound chip so I presumed that meant exactly that. Does it seem like a driver problem here, software related or is it that I just need a sound card and I wrongly thought that this motherboard had one?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

 

[Mingon]

Have you checked the stereo jack is plugged in the right hole ? I know that seems patronising but it is very easily done (yep I admit it i err have a friend who done it)

 

[Wezza]

Yeah its in the right hole. Any ideas anyone? I get error messages when trying to play btw.

 

[tbalon]

What kind of error messages?

 

[Wezza]

MMSYSTEM032 error messages Please help!

 

[Slikkster]

The board (according to Gigabyte) does have onboard sound. However, have you gone into the bios to see that it's enabled? Anyway, according to Gigabyte's website, this is the driver file for your onboard sound:

Via 8223 Sound Driver (your board uses this)

 

[Wezza]

Yes its enabled, tried that driver... doesnt work. Right now I'm tempted to just buy a sound card = more money that I've had to fork out

 

[Slikkster]

Your choice, man...but I wouldn't be giving up so soon. You paid for the thing; it should work. Gigabyte needs to support it. So, take advantage of that, for one.

Secondly, be more specific...what operating system are you using? What type of sound files are giving the message(s)? Wav files? mp3's? Cd's?

Thirdly, why not try a couple of other things. First, get the LATEST Via 4-in-1 drivers...

Latest 4-in-1 Drivers

And, if that doesn't work, at least you'll know your driver set is up to date.

Go back to device manager (a quick shortcut is to hold down the Windows key (next to the CTRL key) while tapping the Pause/Break key). Now, remove all sound entries in the Sound section. Let Windows redetect the drivers.

 

[Wezza]

Ok I tried it and it still didnt work.... so I bought a sound card and wahay! I NOW HAVE SOUND YAY!

 

[wjsulliv]

I'm not a big fan of onboard sound on motherboards. It always used to seem that they caused coflicts with something. That's why I ignor mine (turned off in the bios) so I can use my Sound Blaster Live.