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IP35-E no audio whatsoever

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qualiarunner

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I have Abit IP35-E paired with E8200 @ 3.2Ghz, system just installed (XP Pro 32bit). It seems like I have done everything I could, but I can't get any sound - control panel / sound and audio shows "no audio devices". I have installed Intel chipset drivers, then sound drivers from the CD, tried drivers downloaded from Abit website, tried from Realtek. I have tried disabling/re-enabling sound in BIOS, have tried 97/HD-Audio. Always "no audio devices" in control panel.

Did anyone have a problem like this?
 
Maybe reset the cmos and make sure the onboard audio is enabled in the bios again? There should atleast be unknown multimedia devices in the Device Manager if its enabled. Otherwise it sounds defective.
 
Are these the Realtek HD drivers you downloaded? Link The last time I updated them on my IP35-E I had to install them twice. The first time removed the old drivers, the second installed the new ones.
 
What I didn't mention:
I updated Bios to ver16 (did that before installing OS). In device manager there is 1 unknown "PCI device". When installing audio drivers no error is shown, however when removing Realtek drivers with add/remove programs it shows a problem. I connected front-panel audio to mobo headers, later disconnected to see if that is the problem. Tomorrow I'll try to install XP again on another partition and if that doesn't help I'll try with Vista. If for some reason mobo IS defected I think I'll just buy cheap x-fi xtreme-music - I've had enough problems with this board, I don't want to go through rma and be without a board at all for time being.
 
On a somewhat related question... can you use a PCI audio card AND the optical out on this thing? Sometimes i'd like to hook up the audio to my receiver for truly big sound
 
I don't know about the hotfix, but what helped was selecting unrecognized pci device in device manager, clicking update driver and pointing to Realtek 1.90 driver folder. Running the setup from Realtek any number of times did nothing to help.
 
Originally posted by: jdoggg12
On a somewhat related question... can you use a PCI audio card AND the optical out on this thing? Sometimes i'd like to hook up the audio to my receiver for truly big sound
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I'm not sure on the optical, but I have a digital coaxial output hooked up the SPDIF header on the mobo and sound still comes through the headphones AND the reciever the digital coax is hooked to.
(The digital coax output is just an RCA jack mounted on the back panel of my case and hooked up to the mobo SPDIF header with two wires.)


Edit: My input for the original question - I just did as the manual said: loaded the OS (WinXP Pro SP2 32Bit), inserted the CD that came with the mobo, used the auto load for the drivers and off I went. No hotfixes, no messing around.
 
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