Albatron Support is stumped!!! (On Board sound not working)

Okay after a couple days of pulling my hair out and newgroup reading I finally called Albatron tech support. My on baord audio is not working. Under Windows XP it shows no audio device. After resetting the bios through JP1 and going to device manager and looking for yellow ! marks. He thinks its my Radeon 9600 Pro. He says it may be the DV?? conflicting with it. Please can someone help me I spent all this money and have no sound!!!!

TIA,

Justin

Enable onboard sound through the BIOS. If it's not listed in windows it's MOST likely because it's disabled in the BIOS. By the way, which board are you using?

I'm using the Albatron PX845PEV Pro, I didn't see an option for onbaord sound, did you see one?

Thanks,

Justin

Yes. it's under the "Intregrated Peripherals" section of the BIOS. Enable AC'97 Audio. Then install the drivers.

I checked it and it shows it's enabled. Man this sux.

Justin

Try using the add new hardware wizard in Win XP. If it doesn't show up after that, I don't know what else to tell you.

turn your pci bus freq down. those chips are pretty sketchy at almost anything other than 33mhz.

do you have a pci lock? or if that is not the case you can always throw down minimal $ for a decent pci soundcard (herc fortissimo III and turtle beach come to mind.

anywho... good luck with that.