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IWILL DPI533 - No Audio
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 10:16 am
by Iceman
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?
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 10:42 am
by CDN_Merlin
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.
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 12:40 pm
by Iceman
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.
Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 12:09 pm
by Iceman
Sigh ... no ideas?
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 6:56 am
by Iceman
Still no luck.
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:10 am
by will_kill
Iceman wrote:Sigh ... no ideas?
I'm really suprised no 1 has responded.....no sound @ all?
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:01 am
by Iceman
None, notta, ninguno, aucun, nessuno, keiner, Geen, nenhum
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:58 am
by CDN_Merlin
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?
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 9:28 am
by Iceman
Green on Green - Check
Muted, nope - Check
BIOS - Rebooting to see ...
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 10:05 am
by Iceman
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.
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 10:10 am
by CDN_Merlin
type DXDIAG in the run box and you will see all you need.
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 10:19 am
by Iceman
Thx ... thats not it ... DX 9.0c
Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 8:34 am
by Iceman
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.