Computer: The motherboard is an ASUS A8N-E, and the operating system is Win XP x64, w SP2.
Problem:
There is something wrong with my soundcard or it's drivers. The sound is lower than it should and it sounds
filtered, like some of the sound is sent off to some other speaker. The thing is I only have my stereo headphones
plugged in and still the realtek sound manager (under "connector sensing") think Im 5.1 and got 2 microphones and
2 speakers plugged in. I have selected the 2CH speaker setup but it still wont work. I've tried both the connector
at the front and the back of the PC (green one) so it's not a connector issue. Realtex EZ-connections gives me the following error message
"The audio devices may not be connected properly. Please refer to the correct connection and check below connectors:
Rear Speaker, Center/Subwoofer Speaker."
I have tried the following:
-uninstalled all ASUS and nvidia stuff
-run driver cleaner
-started up the pc in safe-mode and installing all the things from the included CD (included with the motherboard that is)
-then I ran the latest chipset drivers (audio, network, etc)
Doing that didn't fix the sound issue though.
Nothing looks weird in the device manager and I have ofc checked all the volume controls (control panel) in windows so it's not that. I've tried several versions of the AC'97 codec, several sound driver and chipset updates, and just about everything else.
According to the sound manager I got the following:
audio driver version: 5.10.0.5870
directX 9.0c
nVidia(0059) audio controller
ALC850 audio codec
Problem:
There is something wrong with my soundcard or it's drivers. The sound is lower than it should and it sounds
filtered, like some of the sound is sent off to some other speaker. The thing is I only have my stereo headphones
plugged in and still the realtek sound manager (under "connector sensing") think Im 5.1 and got 2 microphones and
2 speakers plugged in. I have selected the 2CH speaker setup but it still wont work. I've tried both the connector
at the front and the back of the PC (green one) so it's not a connector issue. Realtex EZ-connections gives me the following error message
"The audio devices may not be connected properly. Please refer to the correct connection and check below connectors:
Rear Speaker, Center/Subwoofer Speaker."
I have tried the following:
-uninstalled all ASUS and nvidia stuff
-run driver cleaner
-started up the pc in safe-mode and installing all the things from the included CD (included with the motherboard that is)
-then I ran the latest chipset drivers (audio, network, etc)
Doing that didn't fix the sound issue though.
Nothing looks weird in the device manager and I have ofc checked all the volume controls (control panel) in windows so it's not that. I've tried several versions of the AC'97 codec, several sound driver and chipset updates, and just about everything else.
According to the sound manager I got the following:
audio driver version: 5.10.0.5870
directX 9.0c
nVidia(0059) audio controller
ALC850 audio codec