El Mobo Cheapo
Jul. 13th, 2004 08:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plonqThe sound didn't work.
I did some research and I am fairly sure that it is a driver problem rather than anything in hardware (though I wish I had learned that before I unwired the front panel again).
I knew I shouldn't have let Windows pick its own driver - though to be fair, I had no idea which of the dozen or so different sound drivers on the motherboard CD to use. It looks like they simply shipped the CD with drivers for every piece of hardware the company produces (one way to save on costs I guess). The box and manual for the motherboard are a little vague about which audio chipset it actually uses, and I suspect that it changes from run to run. We either need to just start installing drivers until one of them works, or poke around on the board itself and see if any of the chips are clearly marked.
I did some research and I am fairly sure that it is a driver problem rather than anything in hardware (though I wish I had learned that before I unwired the front panel again).
I knew I shouldn't have let Windows pick its own driver - though to be fair, I had no idea which of the dozen or so different sound drivers on the motherboard CD to use. It looks like they simply shipped the CD with drivers for every piece of hardware the company produces (one way to save on costs I guess). The box and manual for the motherboard are a little vague about which audio chipset it actually uses, and I suspect that it changes from run to run. We either need to just start installing drivers until one of them works, or poke around on the board itself and see if any of the chips are clearly marked.
