No sound from suttle mobo:/

[Yaka]

i have the mother board from this shuttle mobo http://eu.shuttle.com/sn41g2.htm#oben and with the latest nforce drivers installed i get no sound, i even tried installing realtek drivers but still get no sound from the board.

 

[Tom]

Do the speakers 'pop' when you turn the computer on?

 

[Yaka]

no i dont get anything, first off it was connected to the TV, but as i couldnt get sound thru that i ttried me head phones and i still could not get any sound. shuttle webby says its got Realtek audio but when yer click the drive/download tab its just gives you nforce drivers, odd thing is when i just had the nforce drivers installed and played a movie/mp3 the equliser that came with the nforce drivers would jump, so its processing sound but just not outputing it

 

[Tom]

You can use realtek drivers on an Nforce board, when I got my a7n8x I did that and it worked better.

If you don't hear anything when you connect the power to the computer, I would suggest either a jumper is missing on the board, or the mobo is broken.

By the way, is onboard sound enabled in the bios?

 

[smurkin]

did you enable the sound on the mobo in the bios ? My nforce3 board has this option..

 

[Xavier]

Ok, a minor but rather important misconception to sort out here.

On nForce2 boards, the DSP (and sound chip) is the Soundstorm Audio Processor and MUST have the nForce Forceware driver installed to work. You can install an optional Realtek driver for the codec chip, but it's not compulsory.

nForce3 however has no Soundstorm and the majority of boards use a Realtek audio chip and their codec, it won't work without the realtek driver.

Yaka - I'd try removing the RealTek software, uninstalling the nForce drivers and reinstalling the latest version - NVIDIA have a new v5 driver on their own site. If you're getting activity on the soundstorm monitor but no sound out try the digital connector - and check the control panel hasn't defaulted to digital out if the outputs you've been trying thus far are only the 3.5mm stereo jacks.

 

[Yaka]

Thanks for that Xavier, i took into another room plug it into our amps digital port and yes i get sounds, and no the spidf outpu wasnt selected when itried it on tv/headphones. will try the latest drivers tonite if its stil same with no sound via the stero out puts. btw if still the same and sound only comes from the optical out any chance you can get optical out to phono conectors?

 

[Tom]

You can't convert digital audio to analogue without a DAC. So no, you can't buy a 3 quid convertor from Maplins

 

[Yaka]

yeah thought that might be the case, oh well as last resort might get cheap ass amp from ebay if i cant get it to work by tonite

 

[Yaka]

well after acouple of hours of tinkering, when i do a sound test via the nforce drivers, i only get staic sound from the blue (rear ithink) socket, i hear nowt from the front (green) and center (pink). but i get sound no probs from the optical port, ah well wiill just have to buy an ultra cheap amp:/

 

[Whipped]

Nice and Cheap

 

[Yaka]

ta for that mate, might pop down richers leeds shop and buy that eltax one and hide it behind telly allits gona do is take mobo sound and put it thru telly speakers

 

[Tom]

Can't you buy some 'digital' speakers or something instead?

 

[Xavier]

I'd reflash the latest BIOS, wipe the CMOS memories and set it all back up. Chances are something in there has just gotten b0rk3d and is forcing it to output digital only. Stranger things have happened.

 

[Yaka]

Dont realy want the extra wires allover the place the digital speakers would bring me, all its gona be used for is dvd viewing and later when i have got a usb or pci card that lets us use it as PVR mainly to record sappy boring soaps and documenteris peeps in the house watch,


And yep will try the bios at some point tommorow.


been a proper crap week for me and pcs :/