Custom PC Built No Sound, Onboard Audio Refuses To Work

It wasn't until i changed the hardware that it started booting slow, i have a (WDC 80 GB HD) and a(lite-on dvd burner) installed currently, they are both masters of separate IDE channels, could it be i didnt configure a jumper correctly?

 

Primary with HD set as master, black connector on back of HD and Blue on MB, nothing else on this ribbon unless you are using two HD's.

Secondary with Burner set as master, black connector on back of burner and Blue on MB, if anything else is on this ribbon, then of course it has to be set to slave.

Dumb question... You didn't load AOL 9.0 with viruse protection did you?

 

Did not load aol 9.0 with virus protection, solved SB
Audigy problem, found a web update for Audigy that updates drivers,havent tried it on this pc yet but it worked on gateway,programs have to be reinstalled manually however but no big deal,Bios problem also fixed I removed a stick of memory and pissed the motherboard off its booting faster than ever - for some reason these intel motherboards think they need to be in dual channel memory mode, I think its all about making the consumer spend more money on memory, i have 3 sticks of (DDR 400 MHZ) in another intel board and it only runs at (320MHZ) - You shouldnt have to be in dual channel mode in order for memory to perform at rated speed.

 

Thanks for letting us know. It felt like everyone in this forum was in the waiting room with you and you were expecting, a PC I mean!

 

I reseated memory in same slot it was in before, bios says im in (dual channel memory mode) again, bios still booting fast,finally got SB Audigy 2 working after about 6 hours of installing and uninstalling drivers for it, even if device manger shows driver is installed it doesnt necessarily mean you will get sound from card,apparently the drivers for the card are next to worthless, as i said before i never had problems with this card before i built this pc.
problems im still having include:
1)dial up sound still coming through mobo speaker
2)processor runnuing too hot for my liking, ive seen it as high as (140F),at idle it seems to be between(105F-115F),it is a prescott and i wish it wasnt.
3)Issues going into standby and shutting down,In standby mode procesor fan continues to run,Hibernation works fine though,sometimes when i try to shut it down it simply reboots.

 

also heatsink fan appears to be blowing air towards processor, instead of pulling it away is this normal?

 

Ok everything is working fine now except dial up through mobo speaker and the solution to that is broadband internet access, I cleaned processor and heatsink and reapplied that silver compound,also dropped processor on hardwood floor some pins were bent but it booted fine got idle temps down about 20 degrees. Thanks for the input,as it turns out nothing was wrong with the pc.I know you people are tired of reading my posts so this will be the final entry for me.

 

Sorrow1

He was actually being nice, just in case you didn't catch that.

 

Ok one last post, If you build a PC and cant get SB Audigy to work, Its a driver Issue.

 

Thanks Sorrow1

Also for the record, since I've been building PC's, when has it ever been "Not an Issue with either sound or Video Card drivers? lol At least in the old days. Sometimes I used to wait to see what the big boys; Zeos, Micron, Gateway, Dell, were using together before I purchased the cards, letting them first work out their problems.

 

This Is My first computer build,i was so worried about frying a componet that it took me 5 hours to assemble the thing. Also for the record that loud dial up sound is coming through a speaker on the modem card, any fix for that? or should i just break the damn thing off! Motherboard is not beeping after post either but it runs super fast so i will assume its no big deal.(Next time i will exhaust my options before freaking out and posting but i literally did not know WTF was going on,Assumed MOBO was fried.)At least i dont have to settle for that pre-configured crap from gateway anymore - what a rip off!

 

Pipe it into your neighbor’s house! Just kidding

I would check properties of volume control under windows and see if under advanced it gives you a modem speaker slide bar and mute, then like ddp said, check under properties of your modem in device manager there also should be a setting for low, medium and high for the volume.

 

Ok just one more Question the motherboard is not beeping after post but it boots fine and loads windows fast, when i remove a stick of memory it beeps after post at least initally it does,actually i get 2 beeps with only one stick of memory in, i havent tried multiple reboots with only one stick,i am not having memory problems,so the board is capable of beeping,when it was booting slow i removed a memory stick and it went back to fast boot, i put stick back in and it has booted fast ever since,so the corruption has been eradicated,(incomplete flashing of bios caused corruption) it didnt even beep the first time i fried it up - for the record it also booted fast on the inital booty,should i replace board? or not fix something thats not broken.

 

Not every board beeps every time. Mine for example does not beep any more after Asus made a bios change. It only beeps when there is an error. It used to beep three times at startup and that was because I had devices in more then two USB ports, hence the change made by Asus.

Check your MB manufacturer and see what they have for beep’s, error's, etc. Don't fix what “ain't” broke! (At least not yet since it's always an option down the road.)

 

Sorrow,
I also just built a pc... with a motherboard from my son, his chip and memory... I had one thousand and one problems all different...He paid quite a bit for the memory last year and felt it was great... after spending money on a new mother board... that now needed a video card ( bought that) all that was the same was the processor and memory... bought new memory.. and then did a memory test... (memtest free program) with his memory and the new memory...errors errors errors... so I took out his memory.... try that...even though the ram is showing up there could be a problem with that. If that shows fine then you atleast know that is not a problem and it will save you money in the long run by deducting hardware problems..

 

Ram shows up correct in bios, and works fine. I took ram out of dual channel mode(memory sticks are now in slots 1+2) and MOBO consistently beeps after every post now.(Intel boards should beep once after post),also the stand by mode with fans running is a windows xp issue, i uchecked the option for mouse to wake pc from standby and put pc in standby and fans stopped running.