Onboard Sound with MSI K7T Turbo

[Crisis]

Im trying to get the onboard sound to work on my MSI K7T Turbo board in Windows 2000 with an Athlon Thunderbirg 1GHz non-overclocked CPU. I have tried messing with all the BIOS settings, as well as CD and websites drivers. Anyone know of any secret tricks? ;-) It appears to be working fine in Device Mangaer, but there is no sound...

 

[knutp]

I just build a computer last night with the k7t turbo mobo. and the sound there worked well! enable the onboard sound in the bios, and the sound blaster emulation, mpu 401... then you will have to install the 4 in 1 drivers, and after that the sound drivers followed with the cd! Hope this workes for you

 

[sirsolo]

For those who have experience with the onboard sound on this board, can you tell us how good or bad it is?
Would an upgrade to a cheap sound card (SB Live OEM, for instance) be justified?

TIA

 

[Hadrien]

knutp did you do a fresh install when you installed your new MSI K7T Turbo? Just curious, thanks.

 

[knutp]

Sorry, didn't see that post, yes that was a fresh install of winme... and it's working great. I built it for someone else, and she is not reporting any problems, and I talked to her yesterday, and there have been no lockups at all, or any other problems.

It also seems like there is a problem with the via drivers in win 2000, Heard about changing something like the properties in the control panel and under sound (or it is like this in me). I don't remember the way in 2000 at the moment.

 

[Crisis]

After a format and reinstall I got it working, and the soudn seems good, I am selling my SB Live Value card and using the onboard sound....

 

[kylef]

The BIOS has a setting called "Onboard Legacy Audio" which can be set to enabled or disabled. If I disable "legacy audio" does that disable the onboard sound completely? I just don't want all of that SoundBlaster emulation crap... But I DO want the onboard sound. Anyone know?

 

[Crisis]

Try it and find out ;-P

 

[knutp]

There is a different bios setting (in another menu) that lets you change or disable the sb legacy emulation, mpu 401 and game port. I just don't remember where.

 

[nexialist]

I had same problem,

1.Remove pci audio from device mgr.

2.Make sure on chip sound is enabled in one bios menu.

3. Restart and let windows 98 locate the sound device, cancel the installation (it's not a win98 driver) so that you get a yellow bubble on the device mgr.

4. from MSI CD Load the 4 in 1 drivers ONLY, and reboot.

5. From the MSI CD load the audio driver...it should work.

I don't think the legacy drivers need to be enabled but I did enable them.