Onboard Sound Card Problem Got onboard sound card. Its a C-Media 9738 AC97 one (or something like that). Downloaded the most up to dat driver from the web but having problems: The 'line out' on the sound card doesnt appear to be working. There is a very faint signal but no where near what it should be. However, when you plus the speakers into the 'line in' on the card you get sound. Its as loud as it should be from the 'line out' but the quality is a little lacking. Also tried recording with the 'line in' and the 'line out' just incase but it doesnt allow you to adjust the levels and its all distorted. All ideas appreciated... Cheers!
Also, you haven't got it set to 5.1 or summinck? Check Control Panel-->Sounds and Audio devices, click advanced under speaker settings Also check the c-media icon in the system tray.
r you sure it's not a mic in because then the signal will distort because line level is a lot louder than mic level. Also whats the thing your trying to connect to the computer, is it a line signal or is it phono, because again line is a lot louder than phono.
Sleepy - No, the sound isn't muted. Dodgy - The driver config has got 'Virtual 5.1' but that is turned off. Xanda - When trying to record I'm plugging in a mini disc and it's defo the 'line in'. Its just weird that the sound is coming out of the 'line in'.
Have you tried rolling back the driver? Get an older driver from c-media's website, or use the driver on the cd that came with your motherboard - see if that solves it.
xanda - its not a cable issue dodgy - unfortunately i dont have the original driver and the c-media website only has the current version. i think this could work if i could get the old driver.
Here's an oldish one: http://drivers.soft32.com/driver/download-CMedia_9738_9739-24619.html Hope it works, if not try your mobo manufacturers website to see if you can get all the original on-board drivers from there.
HELP! IM GOING CRAZY! Right... Its still not working. Been onto the ECS, my mother board maker's, website and downloaded the SiS 7012 audio driver thing that it says should work for the audio chip on my board. Im still having the same problem where I get a very very weak signal from the 'out' but get full sound from the 'in'. Any more ideas. Heres my info as it stands: SiSoftware Sandra System Host Name : PC User : Che Domain : MSHOME Processor Model : AMD Athlon(tm) Processor Speed : 1.10GHz Model Number : 1256 (estimated) Performance Rating : PR1588 (estimated) Type : Standard L2 On-board Cache : 256kB ECC Synchronous, Write-Back, 16-way set, 64 byte line size Mainboard Bus(es) : ISA AGP PCI USB i2c/SMBus MP Support : No MP APIC : No System BIOS : American Megatrends Inc. 07.00T System : ECS K7S5A Mainboard : ECS K7S5A Total Memory : 512MB DDR-SDRAM Chipset 1 Model : Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) SiS735 CPU to PCI Bridge Front Side Bus Speed : 2x 100MHz (200MHz data rate) Total Memory : 512MB DDR-SDRAM Video System Monitor/Panel : Default Monitor Adapter : RADEON 7200 SERIES Physical Storage Devices Removable Drive : Floppy disk drive Hard Disk : Maxtor 6Y120L0 (114GB) Hard Disk : ST340810A (37GB) CD-ROM/DVD : _NEC DVD_RW ND-3520A (CD 48X Rd, 48X Wr) (DVD 6X Rd, 6X Wr) Logical Storage Devices 1.44MB 3.5" (A : N/A Windows/mp3 (C : 114GB (73GB, 63% Free Space) (NTFS) Video (D : 35GB (28GB, 81% Free Space) (FAT32) Winxpsp1_us (E : 470MB (CDFS) Peripherals Serial/Parallel Port(s) : 2 COM / 1 LPT USB Controller/Hub : SiS 7001 PCI to USB Open Host Controller USB Controller/Hub : SiS 7001 PCI to USB Open Host Controller USB Controller/Hub : USB Root Hub USB Controller/Hub : USB Root Hub Keyboard : Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard Mouse : Microsoft USB Wheel Mouse Optical Human Interface : Microsoft USB Wheel Mouse Optical MultiMedia Device(s) Device : MPU-401 Compatible MIDI Device Device : Standard Game Port Device : SiS 7012 Audio Driver Printers and Faxes Model : Lexmark Z700-P700 Color Jetprinter Power Management AC Line Status : On-Line Operating System(s) Windows System : Microsoft Windows XP/2002 Professional (Win32 x86) 5.01.2600 (Service Pack 1) Network Services Adapter : Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC
Try all the things in this thread - http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/715/ Note the bit about not using SiS drivers - try uninstalling the driver from Device Manager. check the chip to see if it's Realtek or C-Media, that may narrow it down, and then install different drivers - but don't use Windows Update for them. Looks like a common problem with no easy fix.
its a c-media for defo. what about a bios upgrade. note here ther is a one for support of the c-media chip --- > http://www.ecsusa.com/downloads/k7s5a.html will check out that link tho.
I would try everything you can, I'm amazed it's a problem that seems pretty common with no straight solution... Hope that works for ya though
