Vista X64 Sound Issues

[ikonia]

I've recently done a hardware update on my test machine thanks to scan's bargin prices and some old parts I had in the house.

I've changed the motherboard to an Asus A8v deleuxe and the processor to an AMD X2.

this board previously had been tested with Vista X64 and worked fine.

I've installed Vista X64 on it and the realtek sound driver has been downloaded and working fine (according to windows - plus the same version that was tested when it was in the old case). At the moment no volume is coming out of the speakers.

I've checked the speakers are live, the volumes are up and unmuted, the driver appears fine.

I'm clearly missing something silly like "not plugging it in", but obviously I have, any thoughts on what I'm missing.

[StoX]

It's worth checking that in the Control Panel you have gone into 'Sound' and checked everythig over, specifically the selected playback device. You can then check a little deeper in 'Properties' > 'Levels' which is sometimes muted as default for some weird reason!!

[ikonia]

already been there, all looks fine.

[manwithnoname]

Grabbing a straw: It's not one of those sound devices where you can choose what the I/O jacks are, i.e. make the blue left line out, make the pink right line in etc.

[ikonia]

nah motherboard is too old for that. Interesting though that neither the front speaker/headphone socket is working, nor the back one

[ikonia]

As you can see from the mixer sound is going into the speakers.

[iranu]

Driver conflict? Correct sound enabled in the bios? Sounds like maybe there is a mute "button" pressed somewhere. Not got a set of headphones connected to teh front panel? Just throwing wild questions about incase it triggers something

[ikonia]

All excellent suggestions,

All fine in the bios - card enabled.
Nothing muted
No headphones connected, and out of interest tried connecting the speakers to the font pannel socket, still no sound.

Driver conflict - possible, but last night I removed the driver and installed the driver from the realtek website, same behaviour.

One of the most unusual problems I've had.

[Clunk]

Did you refuse to buy some clothes pegs from a woman with a glass eye this week?

[ikonia]

Thats the only option I'm looking at at the moment.

[shaithis]

Control Panel > Audio Devices (or whatever its called now)

Make sure the correct device/interfact is enabled and set as default, the screenshot you posted only shows/sets the volume level per app, it does not in any way control the devices and ports that the driver tries to use.

[ikonia]

the correct device is set as input and output defaults

First thing I checked

[redlight]

ikonia if its any consolation my front headphone socket does not work with Vista 64 unless I use the original driver on the disk that came with my QuadGT board.
Not one of the driver updates from Abits site gives me front audio.
I have dug around everything related to sound in Vista 64 and could not find anything that refers to turning it on and off.
So I remain stuck with the original driver which works fine.

[ikonia]

looks like I've damaged something in moving the motherboard from one case to the next.

I've just tested the soundcard with a linux distribution or two and I get the same thing. The sound card is visable, and usable, but no sound actually comes out.

I'm a little surprised by this as I'd have expected the sound card to know show up if damaged rather than not output via either the back of the motherboard, or the front panel

[StoX]

weird! I guess you'll have to try another one in your system to be sure