drunkill

Hey there,

I gutted and upgraded my computer yestderday (new mobo, CPU, GPU, PSU, RAM, basically all the insides) and added a new hard drive (SATA) which I installed a fresh copy of Windows XP SP2 on it (32bit)

All was going well as I downloaded and installed drivers for the graphics cards and added my usual programs back on it. But then I came around to the audio.
It simply wouldn't work. No sound, the speaker (2 speaker + subwoofer) was in the right jack and I also have a mic plugged in too.

The motherboard has a built in Realtek AC'97 complient card, which is what my old motherboard had too. So after installing the drivers it still didn't work. No sound, no nothing. I thought it could be the motherboard as the sound ports were plugged into the motherboard, not permaently attached. Nothing wrong with that. After going into the Device Manager I attempted to update the drivers again which is when the computer ditched the realtek drivers and made nVidia nVmixer the main audio codec and sound device.

A bit more trial and error and eventually I got sound, although only while putting the settings to 4, 5.1, 7.1 speaker configirations. Not the normal two speaker setup. It works for music and a video clip I tried in VLC media player (as well as windows media player) but in the only game I've tested it on, it failed. Couldn't play the game until I turned off the audio device in the Decive Manager. (call of duty 5 if you needed to know)

After redownloading drivers for both the AC97 and nVmixer nothing has changed. I still have to run it in 4 speaker config while two speaker mode gives no sound at all. The plugs are in the right place, the speakers are not busted (tried them by plugging my MP3 player into them) and the drivers are all updated. Not quite sure whats going on.

This is the only game installed right now but from googling some people have this problem if the audio drivers are not updated (having to turn the audio device off to play the game...with no sound) except mine ARE updated, just not outputting in sterio sound.

Any help would be apprecitated.

Thanks.

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Hawkules

I remember having a similar issue with my old XP machine, sadly I don't remember how it was fixed. Hopefully someone else here will be able to help you.

Hope you get it solved,
Hawk