problem with rebuild

[edietz]

Hi,

I just pulled everything out of my HP a250y case and jammed (ok, not really) it into an aspire Q-Pack. Everything went in smoothly, and aside from the headache of figuring out how to attach the power and led to the motherboard, everything seemed to go smoothly. The computer posted and booted just fine.

The only issue now is that I cannot get any audio from my onboard audio. I assume that there are no motherboard headers that I have to attach from the front panel (unless I want) to get any sound out? I had my Klipsch attached to the input in the back of the computer so I assume that I am connecting to the onboard audio. I have the onboard audio set to Enable in BIOS. Before the rebuild I had it set to auto. Any thoughts?

Oh, I guess I should say that the motherboard that came with this computer is and ASUS P4SD-LA. I think its and OEM to HP as I could not find any information on it from the ASUS site.

I've got a P4 2.6 with 1 gig of ram installed. The main harddrive is a Segate 80 gig with a Maxtor slaved to it.

Ok, thanks for any thoughts.

-edietz

[Alaron]

Check to see that your onboard audio is recognized by Windows.

Control Panel>Sounds and Audio Devices. Click on the Audio tab and make sure that the "Default Device" is your onboard audio.

[edietz]

Ok, I checked the device manager and everything looks normal. Realtek 97 audio is recognized as the audio device (as it was before the rebuild). I checked all of the other obvious problems (mute on, etc.). Nothing is clear to me at this point as to why its not working. I made sure that I enabled onboard audio in the BIOS. So, other than that, I'm stumped.

-edietz

[Extremerc12]

I believe your going to have to go to HP's support site, and look up your HP model that you cannibalized. Once you go there and look up the old HP go to the download drivers section (or whatever HP is calling it now) and download the audio drivers and then install them. That should work as thats what I did with a friends computer in which he saved his HP motherboard.

Extreme.

[edietz]

Thanks Extremerc12. I tried that but still get nothing. I wonder if it is possible that I shorted a section of my motherboard when I was changing parts over and that I inadvertently fried the onboard sound. I guess this would surprise me because I everything else seems to be working correctly.