A7N8X Deluxe-Beware of Slots 2&3 if using onboard sound!
Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2002 11:29 pm
Man what an experience I have had with this motherboard and trying to get the onboard sound to work.
This is what I have found out through a lot of time consuming checking.
I have a PCI modem and a Winfast TV2000XP tuner card.
The onboard sound will not work when either of these cards are plugged into PCI slots 2 or 3.
I can use slot 4 and both the PCI device (either one) and the onboard sound will work. I haven't tried slot 5 yet.
This is what this hassle has cost me. I RMAed the board because I had not figured this out at that time. I just could not get the onboard sound to work. At that time I did have the modem into slot 2.
When I got the second board, it did exactly the same thing! I started messing around and first removed the TV Tuner. Still no sound. I then removed the modem from slot 2. Now I finally had onboard sound. At that time I had the TV tuner in slot 4.
Well then my tv tuner starts messing up. The sound would cut out after the tuner was on for a minute or so.
So I said hell with this and disabled the onboard sound and put my Santa Cruz sound card back in. Well the TV tuner sound did the same thing. I emailed Leadtek and found out that the sound cut out problem with the TV tuner was related to Norton Antivirus 2003 monitoring MSN Messinger. I unchecked the monitor for that in the antivirus and it solved the tuner sound cut out problem.
OK by this time I had re-arranged my sound card, TV Tuner, and modem in different slots and all were working fine.
Now I start thinking about my original problem again. So I go and buy a US Robotics External modem for $100 thinking my PCI winmodem just was not compatible with the onboard sound.
Now I figured I will go back to the onboard sound. So I take out my Santa Cruz sound card, and PCI modem, hook up the external modem, boot up, and guess what? No sound!
&%$@)*^&%#!@(&%&^*
Now I'm REALLY tripping. The only device left in (besides the vid card) was the tv tuner card. I take the tv tuner card out, boot up and guess what? I have sound!
Jeez jeez jeez!
The TV Tuner had been in slot 2, the same slot the modem had been in what I experienced my first onboard sound problems. So now I have isolated that slot 2 is the issue.
I then put the TV Tuner card in slot 3, boot up, and guess what? No sound!
&%$@)*^&%#!@(&%&^*
So now I figure that for some reason, slot 2 and 3 have an issue with the onboard sound.
Then I drop the TV Tuner in slot 4, boot up, and guess what? I have sound.
Now I have onboard sound, TV Tuner working right, and external modem (through serial port) working right.
I sure don't know what the deal is here with slots 2 and 3.
I would be interested to know just what slots you A7N8X Deluxe owners, who are using the onboard sound, are using.
This is really screwed up. I don't use slot 1 because it's just too close to the vid card (and upcoming NV30 is supposed to take up that slot anyway). Now I can't use slot 2 and 3. That leaves slots 4 (which I've tried) and 5 (that I haven't tried yet) to use.
That's pretty flaky if you ask me. Now with using a sound card, then all slots can be used (I know this because I had tried them all with the sound card, tuner and pci modem trying to get the best IRQ spread).
I would love to hear comments on this.
This is what I have found out through a lot of time consuming checking.
I have a PCI modem and a Winfast TV2000XP tuner card.
The onboard sound will not work when either of these cards are plugged into PCI slots 2 or 3.
I can use slot 4 and both the PCI device (either one) and the onboard sound will work. I haven't tried slot 5 yet.
This is what this hassle has cost me. I RMAed the board because I had not figured this out at that time. I just could not get the onboard sound to work. At that time I did have the modem into slot 2.
When I got the second board, it did exactly the same thing! I started messing around and first removed the TV Tuner. Still no sound. I then removed the modem from slot 2. Now I finally had onboard sound. At that time I had the TV tuner in slot 4.
Well then my tv tuner starts messing up. The sound would cut out after the tuner was on for a minute or so.
So I said hell with this and disabled the onboard sound and put my Santa Cruz sound card back in. Well the TV tuner sound did the same thing. I emailed Leadtek and found out that the sound cut out problem with the TV tuner was related to Norton Antivirus 2003 monitoring MSN Messinger. I unchecked the monitor for that in the antivirus and it solved the tuner sound cut out problem.
OK by this time I had re-arranged my sound card, TV Tuner, and modem in different slots and all were working fine.
Now I start thinking about my original problem again. So I go and buy a US Robotics External modem for $100 thinking my PCI winmodem just was not compatible with the onboard sound.
Now I figured I will go back to the onboard sound. So I take out my Santa Cruz sound card, and PCI modem, hook up the external modem, boot up, and guess what? No sound!
&%$@)*^&%#!@(&%&^*
Now I'm REALLY tripping. The only device left in (besides the vid card) was the tv tuner card. I take the tv tuner card out, boot up and guess what? I have sound!
Jeez jeez jeez!
The TV Tuner had been in slot 2, the same slot the modem had been in what I experienced my first onboard sound problems. So now I have isolated that slot 2 is the issue.
I then put the TV Tuner card in slot 3, boot up, and guess what? No sound!
&%$@)*^&%#!@(&%&^*
So now I figure that for some reason, slot 2 and 3 have an issue with the onboard sound.
Then I drop the TV Tuner in slot 4, boot up, and guess what? I have sound.
Now I have onboard sound, TV Tuner working right, and external modem (through serial port) working right.
I sure don't know what the deal is here with slots 2 and 3.
I would be interested to know just what slots you A7N8X Deluxe owners, who are using the onboard sound, are using.
This is really screwed up. I don't use slot 1 because it's just too close to the vid card (and upcoming NV30 is supposed to take up that slot anyway). Now I can't use slot 2 and 3. That leaves slots 4 (which I've tried) and 5 (that I haven't tried yet) to use.
That's pretty flaky if you ask me. Now with using a sound card, then all slots can be used (I know this because I had tried them all with the sound card, tuner and pci modem trying to get the best IRQ spread).
I would love to hear comments on this.