Need help with sound Card

[phillyman36]

Hey i just put together my rig the mono is an abit ic7-g. the sound plays but it plays way to low. I have to turn the speakers up to full blast to hear sound. The volume controls in Audigy themselves are set to the highest volume level. Anyone ever have this problem. my speakers are a year old they were working fine. i upgraded everying in my computer nothing is old except the video card

 

[Mojoed]

This happened to me once. Try disconnecting all wires from your speakers/sub, and cleaning all the connecters (I use Q-tips and 90% Isopropyl alcohol). Reconnect and pray it works.

 

[phillyman36]

Didnt work i can hear sound but its way too low and there is also this sort of static pulses when there is bass

 

[Mojoed]

Hrmm, try checking to see if the card is seated properly. Did you disable the onboard sound in your BIOS?

If you try the above and it still doesn't work, try removing the Audigy and trying the onboard sound.

 

[phillyman36]

Ok how is it that my Audighy zs plays like crap and my onboard sound on the Abit IC7-G plays better? I get no static and the volume goes to a decent level. The soundblaster card is seated right and drivers are installed

 

[Mojoed]

It's possible that your Audigy is faulty, but I suspect it's a hardware conflict or software thing. Did you disable your onboard sound and retest the Audigy?

Few more ideas:

Check for conflicts in device manager?
Try a different PCI slot.
Try the Audigy in a different computer.
If all of the above fails, I'm outta ideas.

Good luck, let us know.

 

[phillyman36]

I disabled the onboard sound(didnt have it disabled at first) and it still played like crap i moved the sound card up one slot and still the same thing. i dont have another computer to check. i guess ill rma it ill try my old soundblaster card and if that works its gotta be the card

 

[Cuular]

According to creatives web site, all the outputs on the audigy 2, and the audigy 2 ZS are line level only. I'm guessing that the onboard sound card includes an amplifier, and the older soundblaster may as well.

Line level outs means that it might drive a pair of headphones reasonably well, but otherwise you will need a decent amplifier built into your speakers to get a good strength signal.

I checked into the manual for the motherboard, but since it was not in my natove english language I couldn't tell whether it has a built in amplifier, but about 90% of the onboard sound cards do.

So I'm going to guess that your speakers you are hooking up do not contain their own amplifier, and that may be your problem.

 

[davidjaii]

i'd say you got defected product or you installed it wrong

 

[phillyman36]

Hey just an update i brought a new motherbards an asus 865pe and installed the soundcard on that and it worked. It was the Abit motherboard that was bad