I Did It! First Build Completed Last Night But No Sound

MacDaddyGator · 09-13-2007, 05:08 PM

I am amazed and my wife is even more amazed that I acutally built the computer last night. Great thanks to everyone here who educated me on how to do this in the last month.

Everything is working perfectly, I think, except I have no sound. I put the Gigabyte disc in the DVD drive and ran setup. I just don't have any sound. I tried to open the configuration box by clicking on the speaker in the system tray, and I get 2 sliders, but not the more complicated controls that are in the manual for the mother board. I don't know what I did wrong. Please help me troubleshoot this problem. I would hate to think the sound is bad in my mother board.

EDIT - FIXED, I HAD THE HD SOUND PLUG PLUGGED IN WRONG. INSTEAD OF PUTTING THE 8 HOLE PLUG ON THE 8 PRONGS, I PUT IT ON ONLY 4 OF THEM. THAT MESSED UP THE ON BOARD SOUND AND THE FRONT OF THE CASE SOUND. COMPUTER IS READY FOR GAMES NOW.

b1gapl · 09-13-2007, 05:11 PM

Did you install the sound drivers, from the CD?

If not, I'd suggest downloading the latest, from the Realtek website:

Realtek

pinoy3000 · 09-13-2007, 05:16 PM

Wee, lolz you have Realtek Audio? Say goodbye to your 2 second boot and say hello to 15 second boot. haha

UA_Iron · 09-13-2007, 05:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pinoy3000

Wee, lolz you have Realtek Audio? Say goodbye to your 2 second boot and say hello to 15 second boot. haha

really...thats what takes it so long to boot?

are there hacked drivers out there?

veedubfreak · 09-13-2007, 05:40 PM

There is apparently a sound issue with the drivers that come with the ds3r. I didnt encounter the problem, but others have. Apparently you have to go in and uninstall the drivers that xp loads then install the drivers that come with the disk. There have been a few forum topics about this, although i dont remember offhand where they were.

b1gapl · 09-13-2007, 05:53 PM

I never used the sound drivers from the CD. I went straight to that site I posted, and downloaded the latest. Never had a problem.

pinoy3000 · 09-13-2007, 05:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by UA_Iron

really...thats what takes it so long to boot?

are there hacked drivers out there?

For mine yes. If i dont have the drivers for the sound installed, it boots on the Q6600 in like one single progress bar, barely one.

With the driver's loaded, it takes 16 progress bar.

lancec2c30 · 09-13-2007, 07:03 PM

I like the 4gb of ram and 64bit vista. I bet it is great.

09-13-2007, 05:08 PM	#1 (permalink)
MacDaddyGator True Techie Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 130	I Did It! First Build Completed Last Night But No Sound I am amazed and my wife is even more amazed that I acutally built the computer last night. Great thanks to everyone here who educated me on how to do this in the last month. Everything is working perfectly, I think, except I have no sound. I put the Gigabyte disc in the DVD drive and ran setup. I just don't have any sound. I tried to open the configuration box by clicking on the speaker in the system tray, and I get 2 sliders, but not the more complicated controls that are in the manual for the mother board. I don't know what I did wrong. Please help me troubleshoot this problem. I would hate to think the sound is bad in my mother board. EDIT - FIXED, I HAD THE HD SOUND PLUG PLUGGED IN WRONG. INSTEAD OF PUTTING THE 8 HOLE PLUG ON THE 8 PRONGS, I PUT IT ON ONLY 4 OF THEM. THAT MESSED UP THE ON BOARD SOUND AND THE FRONT OF THE CASE SOUND. COMPUTER IS READY FOR GAMES NOW. __________________ Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 SLACR Gigabyte P-35 DS3R Crucial Ballistic 4gb (4 X 1gb) 240 Pin DDR2 800 750 GB SATA-II Western Digital (2X) RAID-0 Stripe EVGA 8800GTS 320MB Lite On Black 20X DVD SATA Corsair 520W Power Supply Antec 900 Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Case Tunic Tower 120 P4 & K8 CPU Cooler Artic Silver 5 Thermal Compound Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate 64Bit Retail Mouse Logitech Revised G5 Samsung 226BW Black 22" DVI WideScreen ATI TV Wonder 650 Logitech Z-5300e Speaker System Last edited by MacDaddyGator; 09-13-2007 at 06:25 PM.

09-13-2007, 05:11 PM	#2 (permalink)
b1gapl Commander SMod Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: New York City Posts: 11,803	Re: I Did It! First Build Completed Last Night But No Sound Did you install the sound drivers, from the CD? If not, I'd suggest downloading the latest, from the Realtek website: Realtek __________________ Recommended PC Components Guide Potentially the longest thread in history!! Tech-Forums Official 3DMark06/05/03 Top List

09-13-2007, 05:16 PM	#3 (permalink)
pinoy3000 Monster Techie Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 1,003	Re: I Did It! First Build Completed Last Night But No Sound Wee, lolz you have Realtek Audio? Say goodbye to your 2 second boot and say hello to 15 second boot. haha __________________ 3DMark: 10967

09-13-2007, 05:40 PM	#5 (permalink)
veedubfreak Official DFI Bricker Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 6,156	Re: I Did It! First Build Completed Last Night But No Sound There is apparently a sound issue with the drivers that come with the ds3r. I didnt encounter the problem, but others have. Apparently you have to go in and uninstall the drivers that xp loads then install the drivers that come with the disk. There have been a few forum topics about this, although i dont remember offhand where they were. __________________ EVGA x58 i7 920 EVGA GTX260 SLI 3x2gb Patriot Viper DDR3-1600 @9-9-9-24 Corsair 750TX MountainMods Ufo Horizontal 2x Swiftech 320 2x Swiftech 655 2x MM 3bay res 2x XSPC FC Blocks Swiftech GTZ Have you heard? http://www.tech-forums.net/pc/f6/hav...-heard-187280/

09-13-2007, 05:53 PM	#6 (permalink)
b1gapl Commander SMod Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: New York City Posts: 11,803	Re: I Did It! First Build Completed Last Night But No Sound I never used the sound drivers from the CD. I went straight to that site I posted, and downloaded the latest. Never had a problem. __________________ Recommended PC Components Guide Potentially the longest thread in history!! Tech-Forums Official 3DMark06/05/03 Top List

09-13-2007, 07:03 PM	#8 (permalink)
lancec2c30 Future ex-member Join Date: May 2006 Location: Chehalis, WA Posts: 4,018	Re: I Did It! First Build Completed Last Night But No Sound I like the 4gb of ram and 64bit vista. I bet it is great. __________________ XP Pro \| Vista Home Premium \| Linux Ubuntu 7.10 s939 X2 3800 Toledo @ 2.6ghz \| evga 7900gs \| 320gig + 80gig wd \| 1gb Ram \| Abit KN8 SLI 3.1ghz achieved. 70K F@H member..............still waiting for the "iRACK" Norcent will not be forgotten.

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