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tanker3000

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I have just finished my computer, put everything on but i have no sound? either through the onboard sound or my sound card iv tried two different types of speakers and still no luck. iv looked through BIOS and cant find anything. iv looked through device manager and everything seems to be in order? can any one help? my motherboard is a chaintech ZNF250 zenith with a chaintech multi media card.
 
Have you tried plugging in the speaker pluggy things into the motherboard instead of the soundcard?
lol, sorry for my bad choise of words, but still.
i have the same board as you. apart from trying the motherboard audio sockets, you can try downloading the soundcard drivers off the chaintech site.

Kye
 
I have tried, plugging them in to the motherboard but still no luck, but i havent tried new drivers. Its an annoying problem, failing new drivers might i have to buy a new sond card?
 
not just yet. with every computer i have brought, or my family has brought, sound tends too be the first problem.

I would post a link...but firefox wont let me on this site. the driver is easy too find on the chaintech site. its under audio after you select a country. its the one that is not a square. it looks different, but there the drivers i downloaded too get my 5.1 working.


Kye
 
On-board sound is usually "enabled" by default in the BIOS and any drivers needed should be on the Motherboard CD ... depending on what Operating System you are using, as you do not tell us, will depend on which drivers are installed. Even XP has been known to install the wrong drivers and tell you everything is working correctly. Again, the MB manual should tell you what on-board sound they have fitted.

Simply inserting the motherboard CD and waiting for it to 'run' should give you a menu to install such things as the MB chip-set drivers, sound drivers and any other devices such as on-board LAN drivers.

Installing a PCI sound card one would normally "Disable" the on-board sound, via the BIOS to save from any 'conflicts' that may occur. Never use the PCI slot next to the video card. Most PCI sound cards work best in the slot the furthest away from the video card. The one on the bottom.

If using Windows XP (or even ME) operating system no audio cable is required. Both those OS's use Digital and as such use the 'ribbon cable' of your drives.


In most of these cases the "fault" is incorrect drivers for the OS
;)
 
OK, iv tried new drivers, four in total, iv made sure they were xp drivers, and its still not working. iv been on BIOS and cant find anything even relating to sound? iv tried both sets of speakers on the four drivers. My motherboard is a chaintech ZNF3-250, with a chaintech multimedia card which as far as i can make out is made by VIA it came with Envy 24 family drivers. my O/S is windows xp home.
 
The manual for this card and motherboard is quite useless really it tells you nothing apart from where to plug the card!
 
If using Windows XP (or even ME) operating system no audio cable is required. Both those OS's use Digital and as such use the 'ribbon cable' of your drives.
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if you do the above then you can't use the CD Audio volume control in windows, both sound from the CD-ROM and machine are controlled by the wave control, which can be very annoying.
 
Techy said:
if you do the above then you can't use the CD Audio volume control in windows, both sound from the CD-ROM and machine are controlled by the wave control, which can be very annoying.
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The point I was making is you don't need a cable to get sound. ;)


... it tells you nothing apart from where to plug the card!
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Tanker, does this "plug-in" to the little brown slot on the bottom of the MB?

As I see it you either have a 'dead' sound device or, as I still suspect, the wrong drivers.

There are, according to VIA, 5 driver sets for their Envy 24 family ver 4.32b ... try them, you never know.

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I am having the exact same issue with the exact same board. This is the last time I purchase a Chaintech board, I mean audio should just work period. I have dealt with almost every board manufacturer (FIC, ASUS, ACER, EPOX, GigaByte, Intel, etc, etc, etc) and the audio always works.

Piece of junk.
 
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