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Well I got my motherboard and new cpu (XP 2800+) last night. Hooking up everything was straightforward. I followed FP's instuctions for repairing XP Pro to set everything up. It went fine, no problems at all. No remnants of old system at all. Re-installed SP1. Put in Asus CD and installed Nforce2 drivers.

The system is running fine, no hiccups. One small problem though.

NO SOUND WHATSOEVER, NOTHING, NADA, NO CRACKLES, NOT A DAM THING!

And yes I'm sure I have the speakers hooked up right.
For 2 speakers or headphones, it's line out (lime).
For 4 speakers it's line out (lime) for front and surround l/r (violet) for rear speakers.

Then just configure whatever speaker setup in the Nvidia Control Panel. I have tried every combination, 2 speakers, 4 speakers, and just headphones.

There was nothing at all to installing the drivers. Just pop the Asus CD in and there is only 2 choices to choose for drivers. The USB drivers and the Nforce2 drivers.

I ran the Direct X sound tests and it says everything is working properly even though I can't hear a thing.

Nothing amiss in Device Manager, according to it, every component is happy as a clam. Jeez.

According to all the tests and settings, the computer thinks the sound is fine. Problem is the human says BS!

Man and machine can't come to an agreement here.

The connectors are insulated by metal boxes around the plugs (looking from motherboard side) so I can't see a thing. I wonder is everything is fine except something didn't get connected right at the plugs themselves.

I have already fired an email to Asus. There tech support is not very good so no telling how long I'll have to wait for a response.

Needless to say I'm not too happy right now. Looks like I have to call Newegg and get a replacement board cause it sure looks like I got a bad one.

Any comments welcomed.

Is the sound enabled inthe bios? never had a problem with onboard sound like that before really can't think of much to do other than be sure the drivers are installed and any programs they give you for the sound be sure you've went through the configs...

the sound drivers on my epox/nforce installed without a problem

AC97 sound controller enabled in BIOS. I experimented there too.

There were settings such as

AC97 sound controller. I have it enabled.
AC97 modem controller. Don't even know what that ones for. I tried both enabled and disabled. I have a PCI modem (Lucent winmodem installed).
Ethernet controllers. There are 2 of those. I don't multiplay in games so have no use for it, so I have them both disabled.
Midi controller. I don't know what that is for either. I have tried both enabled and disabled.
Serial ports, 2 of them. I don't use any serial ports so have both disabled.

The board itself (except for sound of course) is working fine. I have it set up 166 (stock) in sync mode at 2,2,2,5 timings.

There is an APIC setting, enabled or disabled. I hadn't seen that one before on any of my previous motherboards. That setting has to be enabled. I tried disabling it and the computer wouldn't boot.

Does anyone have the A7N8X and a dialup modem?

I found the problem. The system has no sound when the modem is in any slot. I can take the modem out and I then have sound.

This mb has speech that tells you things during post. Now keep in mind this is well before the OS even boots. I pull the modem out and I can hear the speech during post. I put the modem in, and no speech during this time.

The modem dials up fine, just no sound while it's in.

Any ideas guys?

Have you tried removing all sound related entries from the device manager, rebooting and letting windows re-detect?

There isn't a jumper on the mama board for the on board sound is there?

Do you have another modem you can try? Maybe an external one?

AND, you might try heading over Amdmb.com there seems to be a lot of threads on the A7N8X

I suspect you have an incompatible Winmodem. Since this is a drag on resources, you might consider replacing it with a decent hardware modem.

im getting this mobo for my next upgrade

did you work out the problem

or is it still a problem

even though im not goin to use a modem

its good to know

me

Maybe a bios update fixed the problem.....)*