K7S5A onboard sound is EXTREMELY quiet, help?

[fumbduck]

I installed the drivers from ECS's website, and the onboard sound at its max is less than my TBSC at 1% volume.

Is there a way to go into the drivers and increase it? or something?


all the volumes are at their max, everything is plugged in as tight as possible.

 

[Ionizer86]

I assume your speakers aren't passive? And that you're using the front speakers (green) jack?

 

[fumbduck]

headphones in the green jack.

 

[Ionizer86]

Did you try to install the *.inf only via driver wizard or did you run the setup file for the whole package (if available?). I know that on the EPoX 8KHA+ board, running the whole Realtek setup file installs the control panel for the (trashy) onboard sound, which gives you a lot of controls.

 

[fumbduck]

i tried to install the realtek package, but apparently it doesn't work for this, so all i installed was the .inf

 

[fumbduck]

installed new drivers, no work..

 

[sandorski]

The TBSC has a dedicated headphone jack, does it not? My thinking is(assuming the answer is "yes") that the TBSC has amplified the Headphone out, but the onboard sound you are using doesn't. If I'm correct, you'll need to get some kind of Amplifier in order to use your headphones. I believe Radio Shack has an Amplifier specifically made for headphones, it cost about $30 or so.

 

[isekii]

isn't the red jack for headphones?

the green jack is for your front speakers.

 

[optimistic]

You're not spliting your audio with a Y-cable by chance, are you?

 

[bob4432]

according to the ecs manual, you have line in(blue), line out(green) and microphone(red). in one of my systems i have that same board and noticed the sound through headphones was very low, but i thought it was because i am partially deaf. guess not

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: sandorski
The TBSC has a dedicated headphone jack, does it not? My thinking is(assuming the answer is "yes") that the TBSC has amplified the Headphone out, but the onboard sound you are using doesn't. If I'm correct, you'll need to get some kind of Amplifier in order to use your headphones. I believe Radio Shack has an Amplifier specifically made for headphones, it cost about $30 or so.

for that he just as well get a SB LIve! value somewhere

 

[thorin]

Try a different cable and/or different speakers.

Thorin

 

[fumbduck]

Originally posted by: thorin
Try a different cable and/or different speakers.

Thorin

i did, still played very low through z560's and another set of headphones.

 

[JackBurton]

This is known problem with this board. An Audigy 2 will take care of the problem.

 

[fumbduck]

damn, there is no way to fix it?


i don't want to buy another soundcard, this is just a temporary solution

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: fumbduck
damn, there is no way to fix it?


i don't want to buy another soundcard, this is just a temporary solution

Where's your TBSC?

 

[fumbduck]

Originally posted by: sandorski

Originally posted by: fumbduck
damn, there is no way to fix it?


i don't want to buy another soundcard, this is just a temporary solution

Where's your TBSC?

broken, screwed by an electric storm

 

[EvilScooby]

There is a way to fix this problem, You must go to the c-media website and download the driver for your sound chipset. this is this will solve your problems.

Grab this one CMI9738/S
That is the norm for the K7S5A boards
K7S5A Sound drivers

 

[Arcanedeath]

Depending on what revision of the K7S5A board you have you either need to use SiS's audio drivers (through version 3.1 of the board) or CMI's drivers for any later Rev. to get the correct sound you need to use the correct drivers for your codec provider

 

[Arcanedeath]

Depending on what revision of the K7S5A board you have you either need to use SiS's audio drivers (through version 3.1 of the board) or CMI's drivers for any later Rev. to get the correct sound you need to use the correct drivers for your codec provider