Asus P4SD-LA Audio Problems

Hello All,
First let me thank you for the countless problems this group has helped
me fix while I have been lurking. I figure it's time to de-lurk and ask the
folks who know. I have been pulling out what little hair I have left over
this one. I have 3 new HP systems - they all use the Asus P4SD-LA mobo. At
my wonderful bosses request, I wiped the factory installed OS and installed
WinXP Pro. Everything works wonderful except I cannot get front channel
audio on any of these units. I have gone to Realtek's website and gotten
Driver v3.49 for the onboard ALC650 - AC'97. It installs pretty and no
problem in device manager. Looks like it should be playing audio just fine.
HP's been NOOOOO Help, Asus won't talk to me at all because it's an OEM only
board, Realtek's ONE USA based tech support guy is in TAIWAN this week!!
Before you ask, I have checked windows volume / slider setting, BIOS
version (Current), Different speakers and configurations, and I have
re-installed the factory installed OS with CD's HP sent to me. Nothing works
for front channel audio. I can get rear channel audio all day. :-( Help!

Thanks,
Karl North
Systems Admin

On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 18:58:29 -0500, Knowing that it was a Hollywood
invention that lemmings jump off cliffs "Karl M. North" OPM AT email
DOT com wrote :

Hello All,
First let me thank you for the countless problems this group has helped
me fix while I have been lurking. I figure it's time to de-lurk and ask the
folks who know. I have been pulling out what little hair I have left over
this one. I have 3 new HP systems - they all use the Asus P4SD-LA mobo. At
my wonderful bosses request, I wiped the factory installed OS and installed
WinXP Pro. Everything works wonderful except I cannot get front channel
audio on any of these units. I have gone to Realtek's website and gotten
Driver v3.49 for the onboard ALC650 - AC'97. It installs pretty and no
problem in device manager. Looks like it should be playing audio just fine.
HP's been NOOOOO Help, Asus won't talk to me at all because it's an OEM only
board, Realtek's ONE USA based tech support guy is in TAIWAN this week!!
Before you ask, I have checked windows volume / slider setting, BIOS
version (Current), Different speakers and configurations, and I have
re-installed the factory installed OS with CD's HP sent to me. Nothing works
for front channel audio. I can get rear channel audio all day. :-( Help!

Thanks,
Karl North
Systems Admin



Have you tried an Asus news group and an HP news group?
alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus
comp.sys.hp.hardware
HTH



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