Have you checked to see if the front panel audio connector is connected?   If 
it is not, have you made sure the left/right is jumpered?

Ie

1 2 3 e 4
5 6 7 8 9

Should be front panel connected, or 3/7 has to be jumpered along with 4/9.  If 
not, it will install fine, but audio is redirected to an absent front panel 
connector. 

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-----Original Message-----
From: DSinc <[email protected]>
Sender: [email protected]
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 21:36:52 
To: <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [H] dead on board sound

I'd clock the m/b back to stock for troubleshooting. This reads like a 
reason I gave up on all things O/C. JMHO.
Yes, sound chips/function can die. Are you sure you have fully enabled 
the on-board sound? Do you run DirectX?
If the m/b is a few years old, perhaps a visit to Asus for new/latest 
m/b utility files focused on the sound function
may help......
I have found that the base (m/b's CD) drivers for one of my Asus boards 
do NOT play nice w/XP until I get newer
files. Odd, but expected over the past 6 years.
Good luck,
Duncan


On 10/22/2010 16:33, Winterlight wrote:
> I have a old ASUS PC-DL Deluxe Xenon motherboard that I decided to 
> start using again. It served for four years 24/7 as my primary 
> computer. It has onboard Soundmax sound. I set it up with a dual boot 
> XP PRO and Windows 7 PRO. For the first time on this board I set it up 
> to overclock from 3.53GHZ to 3400GHZ . I did 24 hour Prime95 burn ins 
> to make sure everything was stable. It is a PCP&C 510 PS. It isn't 
> even running particularly hot. The RAM is faster then the bus 
> requires, and this motherboard is set up for overclocking so I haven't 
> worried about the PCI bus.
>
>  But then my sound card has apparently died. The driver installs 
> normally, no error messages, windows plays as if there was sound there 
> just isn't any sound. I tested speakers and they are fine. It is the 
> same the exact same problem in both OSes so it is a hardware problem. 
> The BIOS has AC97 enabled as it should. The speakers are test good. 
> Just no sound.
>
> So I figure a  circa 2004 motherboard has lost it's onboard audio 
> chip. I can stick a PCI sound card in. But I am wondering if the 
> overclocking could of taken out the sound chip? I have onboard sound 
> go bad with interference but never just die like this. Maybe I 
> shouldn't stress this old board by overclocking? Any thoughts?
>
> m
>
>

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