Microphone jack not working with Onboard Sound on A7V8X-X mobo

[Fallout2man]

I usually don't post here, but I desperately need this fixed ASAP. Currently I cannot get the Mic to work in my embedded motherboard sound card. Everything's enabled and works properly accept for that. I've made sure the volume was good, turned on mic boost and all those extra options.

I've tried reinstalling drivers, updating drivers for all things motherboard related, even updated the BIOS. I've tried plugging in different Mics that do work on other PCs and none work there, and I've tried enabling windows services I usually have disabled just to be sure. I cannot for the life of me figure out what is wrong.

I tried putting in this dinky old soundcard with hacked together windows XP drivers but XP doesn't even detect the hardware for it. I have no other sound cards right now and I need to get my Mic working soon. I remember at one point on an old A7V133 motherboard I had, that when I installed windows XP SP1 (over regular XP) it disabled use of the Mic somehow and worked fine Pre-SP1. My current XP install was from a CD containing SP1 already and then SP2 installed over it.

There is one anomaly I noticed. When reinstalling the sound driver and rebooting afterwards an error box labeled DSundP error appears and says something about I believe an AIC driver not being present.

So I?m thinking it may be possible this is a windows related issue and not a hardware related one.
My current setup is as follows: Asus A7V8X-X motherboard, 1013 BIOS revision, the latest via chipset drivers, the SoundMax Digital Audio driver provided on the Asus support website for my motherboard. Windows XP Professional with SP1 off of the CD and SP2 installed over that and pretty much every update from windows update on top of that. If anymore info is needed I?ll be happy to provide it. The SoundMax audio device shows up in the audio panel for recording and this setup did work before but now appears to have mysteriously stopped. Thanks in advance for anyone kind enough to help out.

 

[meltdown75]

Hi... just a little something I noticed in your post...

the latest via chipset drivers

You might want to install the nforce2 chipset drivers since it's an nforce2 board. www.nvidia.com.

Also make sure everything related to your onboard sound is enabled in BIOS.

 

[Fallout2man]

Ermm, last I checked the Asus A7V8X-X was a Via KT400 chipset based motherboard. If it were Nvidia based it'd be A7N8X not A7V8X. As for the Bios, yes, I set the AC97 Audio controller to auto, and turned on the midi support in the BIOS. That's really all there is as far as sound support options. Thanks for responding though.

 

[meltdown75]

I'm sorry. I get it confused with the A7N8X which is what I have. Hopefully someone with a brain will pick up this thread

 

[Uncle Bob]

Just a random thought...

Have you got the sound card configured for 5.1 sound? I believe this makes the mic socket function as one of the sound channel connectors.

 

[Fallout2man]

Originally posted by: Uncle Bob
Just a random thought...

Have you got the sound card configured for 5.1 sound? I believe this makes the mic socket function as one of the sound channel connectors.

If you mean in Windows' Speaker settings under the audio control panel. No, it's configured for stereo headphones, since I rarely ever have anything but headphones plugged in to listen to sound.

Edit: And the SoundMax Control panel also says Stereo Headphones, so definitely not set up for 5.1

 

[Humpty]

Any luck with a fix for this?

I recently changed over to a Gigabyte GA 819815 board and I'm having similar problems with the microphone using the on board sound.

 

[asm0deus]

A7V8X-X uses soundstorm right? you probably need to play with it in there, another thing, I have the same mobo, but I thought that it had an auto-detect feature, as in, if you dont have a mic plugged in when you boot up, then it disables it or something.