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by daddydold52

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I recently built a PC with a K7S5A motherboard. I Loaded Windows XP Pro, and everything works fine but the sound. I went out to the motherboard mfg. website, and downloaded and installed the latest audio driver. It installed fine. Device manager says everything is working properly, yet I still have no sound at all from my speakers. Any ideas, or suggestions? Thanks.

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by dmiles

Does the system have on board sound that you are plugged into or using a sound card in PCI slot

You will need to disable onboard sound if using a sound card,then check the back of the card to make sure you are plugged into the correct socket

Make sure that you hae the audio cable plugged into the cd rom to the sound card

Open the Control Panel and check for multimedia icon,check to make sure that the sound is not muted

One other thing to check is from the control panel,sounds and mutimedia,check to make sure that multimedia is enabled thru Windows Setup

by daddydold52

I'm using the on-board sound on the motherboard. Windows setup says multimedia and sound devices are working. Checked the sound mixer, nothing is muted. Sound cable is connected to cd-rom. Thanks for responding so quickly.

by opatzg9

Make sure your speakers are plugged into the right connection. One is Line out for connecting to a stereo or TV (You need a receiver), One is for the microphone and one normally has a set of headphones for a little icon, plug into that one.
In device manager have you opened up the sound devices? what is represented there? Check the device out for interupt errors under properties. Make sure it exists in your current hardware profile. Did you only install the audio driver or did you install all the motherboard drivers? If not install the rest.
Good luck

by exp

speakers should be plugged in the green hole next to the serial port. Make sure your speakers in turn on and at least on 1/2 volume.
When you said no sound you meant playing CD or windows wav files??

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