IWILL DPI533 - No Audio

Iceman · Post by **Iceman** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 10:16 am

Well my WinXP distribution fragged on me and I had to rebuild my C drive with a fresh copy of XP. I have installed the drivers from the IWILL MB CD and according to the device manager and sound control panel all is hunky-dory. Only problem is that no sound actually comes out of the speakers. On-board AC97 audio is turned on in BIOS.

Any ideas why?

CDN_Merlin · Post by **CDN_Merlin** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 10:42 am

Check the plug, make sure it's in the right connector. Turn on speakers.

I know this sounds retarded, but always start with the simpliest solution.

Iceman · Post by **Iceman** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 12:40 pm

Plug/connector is fine, power is turned on.

The only thing that has changed is software. I haven't touched any part of the hardware.

Iceman · Post by **Iceman** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 12:09 pm

Sigh ... no ideas?

Iceman · Post by **Iceman** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 6:56 am

Still no luck.

will_kill · Post by **will_kill** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:10 am

Iceman wrote:Sigh ... no ideas?

I'm really suprised no 1 has responded.....no sound @ all?

Iceman · Post by **Iceman** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:01 am

None, notta, ninguno, aucun, nessuno, keiner, Geen, nenhum

CDN_Merlin · Post by **CDN_Merlin** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:58 am

Are the speakers plugged into the Green or Black plug in your MB? Could there be another BIOS setting you missed?

Did you mute the sound in windows?

Iceman · Post by **Iceman** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 9:28 am

Green on Green - Check
Muted, nope - Check
BIOS - Rebooting to see ...

Iceman · Post by **Iceman** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 10:05 am

Nope, BIOS is OK.

I have been searching for XP drivers (Realtek AC97) and found one set that says it requires DX8.0 or >.

The DirectX control panel exits with the message "This control panel is older than the DirectX install. The control panel will exit now.

=> I can't tell what version of DirectX I have.

I am installing Windows Update (web browser version) and running through updating manually. I had auto-updating turned on but apparently it forgot something. This might just be the problem.

CDN_Merlin · Post by **CDN_Merlin** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 10:10 am

type DXDIAG in the run box and you will see all you need.

Iceman · Post by **Iceman** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 10:19 am

Thx ... thats not it ... DX 9.0c

Iceman · Post by **Iceman** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 8:34 am

I got it working now. I uninstalled the driver then when reinstalling I put the IWILL CD in the drive bay and had the installer do a full search. It found like 8 versions of the driver between my system disk and the CD. I choose the 5.10.0.5050 driver and that worked fine.