MSI 6330 (K7T Turbo) - Problem with AC97 Sound Need Help

[CPROFITT]

Hello.

I have an MSI 6330 MB and can't get the AC97 audio to work.

I have tried 2.4, 2.5 and 2.7 bios levels
I have tried enabling on board audio and disabling Legacy Audio
I have tried all sound features enabled
I have tried on board disabled and legacy enabled
I have tried not using ACPI

The issue appears to be that the bios doesn't assign the Multimedia Device an IRQ. Windows doesn't detect the device either (makes sense since Bios seems to have disabled it despite my enabling it). I have another MSI 6330 board without the raid controller and with the on board audio enabled it has a multimedia device listed. The board with the raid controller as a "simple COMM controller" listed (that isn't listed on the non-raid controller board).

Does anyone have any good suggestions, or do you feel that this is a defective MB?

Thanks

 

[CPROFITT]

Anyone?

 

[boran]

I'll do a guess (as always)
cant it be that one of yer PCI cards takes away an IRQ of yer onboard soundcard ... check which of yer PCI cards need full length and which can share an IRQ and know that adjectant different slots mostly share IRQ (the pci below the AGP shares with the AGP) the PCI above an ISA shares with the ISA etc ... mostly soundcards and scsi (scanner or disk drive scsi) will require a full-length slot .. I have never encountered a nic that required full length but u might check that as wel .. about modems I dunno if they require full lenth or not (my old isa modem card always worked fine with shared IRQ, but now i've thrown it away ..)

well that's my guess, but it is nothing more than that
hope it helps though ...

 

[DieHardware]

If your turbo has a similar bios to my earlier k7tpro then you might have to enable onboard audio in two seperate menus in the bios. Check to see if you have "onchip sound"(or something similar) enabled in the "Advanced Chipset Features" menu-and of course keep the "Onbard Legacy Audio" enabled in the "Integrated Peripherals" menu. Hope that helps.

 

[hokahknow]

Make sure that you installed the AC97 Driver from the MSI diskette. (just in case you forgot)

 

[CPROFITT]

The problem isn't with loading the drivers - the problem is that BIOS isn't giving the device any IRQ. (Yes, it was enabled in ALL places in the bios) It looks like the board will be RMA'd

 

[CPROFITT]

The problem isn't with loading the drivers - the problem is that BIOS isn't giving the device any IRQ. (Yes, it was enabled in ALL places in the bios) It looks like the board will be RMA'd

 

[ericboo]

Did you choose to Update ESCD after making changes? Maybe that might help. I got the sound to work on the first shot. Just a thought...

 

[CPROFITT]

I tried updating the ECSD, I tried disabling APCI support, I tried disabling SB support, I tried enabling it, I tried to disable the com ports.

On my other MSI board everything went flawlessly.

 

[ericboo]

I would RMA the board then. If you can't wait, order up another one and send the other back. One of those things you just can't figure out I guess.