1st Time on the Zeropaid Forums....

[jszy25]

Hello Everyone,

I just signed up and this is my first time posting on these forums. I have a question and I do not know where to ask it, so I figured the general forum would be a good start.

I recently bought a Logitech X-530 5.1 Surround Sound Speakers + Subwoofer setup. Then I upgraded my machine with a 6CH C-Media 5.1 Surround Sound 3D PCI Sound Card. I then installed the drivers that came with the soundcard and I plugged in my speaker system, but there is NO sound at all. What could be the problem?

I still have sound from the speakers when I plug them into the onboard soundcard. I tried disabling the onboard soundcard, but that did not do anything.

PLEASE HELP.

thank you all.

[Krell]

look under the Volume Control > Properties > Default sound device.
If still no sounds uninstall everything related to your sound cards.
Reboot
Verify the onboard is really disabled.
If windows detect the new sound card and asks to install the drives, say no.
Run the software and driver installation for the C-Media.



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[jszy25]

thank you for the response Krell. I will try that today and see what happens.

Quick question: On my new soundcard there seems to be open pins that looks like something should be plugged into there. I do not know much about soundcards, does anyone know if I should be connecting something to the board as opposed to just seating it in the open slot correctly? Am I missing a step?

[uselesscrap]

thank you for the response Krell. I will try that today and see what happens.

Quick question: On my new soundcard there seems to be open pins that looks like something should be plugged into there. I do not know much about soundcards, does anyone know if I should be connecting something to the board as opposed to just seating it in the open slot correctly? Am I missing a step?


probably to connect your CD/DVD rom to the sound card.

[mountain_rage]

You did say you dissabled your onboard sound but il ask this anyway, by dissable you mean that you moved the jumpers on your montherboard to dissable it??? You may also have to your bios to enable your sound card, most dont need you to do this but just a thought. Beyond that it may be something in your volume control setting for your card, mine autodetects connections but sometimes screws up.

[jszy25]

You did say you dissabled your onboard sound but il ask this anyway, by dissable you mean that you moved the jumpers on your montherboard to dissable it??? You may also have to your bios to enable your sound card, most dont need you to do this but just a thought. Beyond that it may be something in your volume control setting for your card, mine autodetects connections but sometimes screws up.
No I did not move anything on the motherboard when installing the new sound card. I disabled the onboard soundcard through software.

Can you please tell me more about moving the jumpers on the motherboard? Please excuse my newbie-ness haha.

[uselesscrap]

No I did not move anything on the motherboard when installing the new sound card. I disabled the onboard soundcard through software.

Can you please tell me more about moving the jumpers on the motherboard? Please excuse my newbie-ness haha.

I highly doubt that you'll have to move or remove any jumpers on your mobo for a sound card. This is not rocket science. You simply should disable the onboard sound from the bios, of course, and then install your card, then wait until it prompts for the driver, then browse to the already extracted file.

[mountain_rage]

I guess ive always dissabled my on board sound with the jumpers, but it looks like things have changed from the last time I had to do it. Reading google it seems like most just require you to dissable it in the bios. If you have tried to dissable the onboard sound in your bios and couldnt find a setting you probably have to move jumpers. If you want to dissable your onboard sound using jumpers it probably tells you in your motherboards manual.

You might also have to remove the drivers from the device manager, if you have already installed the drivers for the new card remove both the restart then reinstall your drivers.

[jszy25]

^ Ok, thank you so much everyone. I really appreciate the help.

I will try all these things tonight when I get home.