Windows volume control not controlling

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Igor

Hi,

I just built a system using Asus K8N-E Deluxe and Windows XP Pro with SP2.
I am using the onboard sound card.
Everything works well except that the Windows volume control does not work
for the CD Player or Aux (2nd optical drive). I think it won't work for the
Line In either.

The main volume, wave, and seperate front, rear volume sliders all do work.

Does anyone have any ideas how to fix this?

Thanks, John
 
Igor said:
Hi,

I just built a system using Asus K8N-E Deluxe and Windows XP Pro with SP2.
I am using the onboard sound card.
Everything works well except that the Windows volume control does not work
for the CD Player or Aux (2nd optical drive). I think it won't work for the
Line In either.

The main volume, wave, and seperate front, rear volume sliders all do work.

Does anyone have any ideas how to fix this?

Thanks, John
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John,
Have you installed the ALC850 software for the onboard audio system?
The AVRack should create a set of controls to use instead of the Windows
one!
Rob
 
Rob said:
John,
Have you installed the ALC850 software for the onboard audio system? The
AVRack should create a set of controls to use instead of the Windows one!
Rob
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Thanks for the reply Rob. I do have the ALC850 software installed. The
AVRack only has a cheesy
WAV player/recorder from what I can tell. It has an equalizer but no mixer.
The Sound Effect Manager
that I access from control panel has some better stuff but no mixer for the
device volumes, that is still
done by Windows.
 
Igor said:
Hi,

I just built a system using Asus K8N-E Deluxe and Windows XP Pro with SP2.
I am using the onboard sound card.
Everything works well except that the Windows volume control does not work
for the CD Player or Aux (2nd optical drive). I think it won't work for the
Line In either.

The main volume, wave, and seperate front, rear volume sliders all do work.

Does anyone have any ideas how to fix this?
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Do you get any sound from those sources? If not, it could be that you
haven't connected the audio-cable from the drives to the sound card
properly...
 
Yes, I do get sound from all of the sources. I did have the audio cables
from the 2 optical drives connected to the 'CD' and 'Aux' connectors on the
mainboard (onboard soundcard) but was later told I don't really need these
cables since I am using the newer style IDE cables. I removed these audio
cables and it makes no difference. The Windows mixer doesn't control the
volume either way. Very odd.

Thanks for the reply, John
 
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