NEW sound card + NO sound ???

[blinky88]

I have just installed a new sound card and loaded the drivers with the CD .... NO sound.

Sound Card details:
C-Media 8738 PCI sound card.
Fully compatible with your Surround Sound 5.1 channel computer speaker system
This PCI card uses the C-Media CMI8738/PCI-6-CH-LC chipset
Full duplex 64-bit PCI bus master
Integrated SRS 3D sound technology
Compatible with sound blaster, sound blaster pro and Windows sound system
Advanced MPC-3 compliant input and output mixer
Enhanced stereo full duplex operation
Dual Type-F DMA support
Delta-Sigma data converters
Programmable power management
Hardware master volume control
Center/bass-out
Microphone-in
Line-in
Line-out (Front Speakers)
Rear-out (Rear Speakers)
15 pin standard game/midi port
PCI interface
System requirement: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP

P4 2g socket 478 CPU
Acer M/B chipset sis651
512Mb of DDR PC3200
10g Seagate HDD
Antec 350w PSU
ASUS CD ROM
XP Pro SP3

This computer has no software loaded outside of the bare essentials for the net, I use another PC for work.

[Nelson37]

Check your preferred audio device in control panel, check your speaker setup and connection, check the volume panel with all settings, test with headphones. Also confirm device installation in Device manager.

[ocgw]

I have just installed a new sound card and loaded the drivers with the CD .... NO sound.

Sound Card details:
C-Media 8738 PCI sound card.
Fully compatible with your Surround Sound 5.1 channel computer speaker system
This PCI card uses the C-Media CMI8738/PCI-6-CH-LC chipset
Full duplex 64-bit PCI bus master
Integrated SRS 3D sound technology
Compatible with sound blaster, sound blaster pro and Windows sound system
Advanced MPC-3 compliant input and output mixer
Enhanced stereo full duplex operation
Dual Type-F DMA support
Delta-Sigma data converters
Programmable power management
Hardware master volume control
Center/bass-out
Microphone-in
Line-in
Line-out (Front Speakers)
Rear-out (Rear Speakers)
15 pin standard game/midi port
PCI interface
System requirement: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP

P4 2g socket 478 CPU
Acer M/B chipset sis651
512Mb of DDR PC3200
10g Seagate HDD
Antec 350w PSU
ASUS CD ROM
XP Pro SP3

This computer has no software loaded outside of the bare essentials for the net, I use another PC for work.

are you looking for analog or digital output?

ocgw

peace

[bevills1]

Does your mobo have onboard sound? If it does, you may need to disable it in the BIOS for the add on card to work.

[blinky88]

Loaded Nero Showtime now operating as it should, great sound.

Thanks for taking time out to help, appreciated.

[blinky88]

Re-loaded the OS, now operating as it should.

Thanks to all for taking time out to help, appreciated.

[ocgw]

Re-loaded the OS, now operating as it should.

Thanks to all for taking time out to help, appreciated.

Are you getting Dolby Digital w/ Showtime?

ocgw

peace

[Nelson37]

Please describe EXACTLY the procedure you were using to test sound card function.

Playing an AC3 or similar file with no native support built-in to the OS? Or did you try the WAV files built-in to the system, which do not require any additional software for playback?

[blinky88]

Problem solved by installing new OS .... Re installing the OS also loaded the AGP which also was causing problems.