RealTek Audio Problems, DFI LanParty Board

[kyleb]

Hello all!

I have a DFI nF4 LanParty Ultra-D board with integrated Realtek AC'97 audio. Everything was working fine until I visited a website with an embedded video file, which blue screened my computer for some unknown reason. My friends insist the site is fine and the video plays fine in their browsers.

After I rebooted, my sound no longer worked. My audio device is not seen in the Device Manager, and reinstalling the drivers for it and rebooting didn't do anything. Uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers also did not work, and flashing the BIOS with the newest update from DFI and WinFlash didn't work either.

I disabled the device in BIOS, booted to Windows XP, uninstalled the drivers, rebooted, re-enabled the device in the BIOS, reinstalled the drivers, rebooted, and still nothing.

Does anyone have any insight on how to fix the problem?

 

[Arcanedeath]

It sounds like (no pun intended) your onboard audio died. I'd suggest reseating your Karjan audio module and see if that works.

 

[kyleb]

Originally posted by: Arcanedeath
It sounds like (no pun intended) your onboard audio died. I'd suggest reseating your Karjan audio module and see if that works.

This is a relatively new motherboard. I wonder if this is actually common?

I have a random Soundblaster Live 5.1 value card sitting around, so it's not a big deal, but it's pretty frustrating as of right now. I will try your suggestion, thanks.

 

[kyleb]

Does anyone else have other suggestions? Re-seating the module did not work.

 

[Matt2]

if it's not showing up in the device manager, I would say your audio module definately died.

Oh and please, dont tell us the site you were viewing when this happened 😉