Partial sound on MSI K7T Turbo MS-6330

fyxxer32 · February 5th, 2002, 05:18 PM

I helped a friend put a new hard drive in his computer, we decided to Win2K on it. I installed all the drivers that came with the board(it has on-board AC97sound and video) . It also has Via KT133A chipset. When I tried to test the sound it didnt work, you can put a cd in the cd drive and it plays fine though. But when you go into control panel and test sound , nothing, no windoze sounds work. I've downloaded the Win2K service pack #2.Tried reinstalling the drivers , nothing. All devices in device manager appear to be fine and all sound devices installed. What am I missing.? Looked at Microstars website for tech help to no avail.

Imanage · February 5th, 2002, 05:29 PM

Only thing I would check is to see that the Wave output is full up or the volume is set higher. On integrated boards, you usually need a set of amplified speakers or you get low output.

uethello · February 5th, 2002, 05:30 PM

Playing a CD is different than other sound. Try going into your BIOS, there should be options for enabling sound. Have you tried this? If you give me the make of the board, I can look up where the BIOS options are.

fyxxer32 · February 5th, 2002, 10:35 PM

The make of the board is same as posted above. One thing that is different than before from when the sound WAS working is that I changed the operating system from Win98 to Win2k if that might have anything to do with it.

uethello · February 6th, 2002, 07:11 AM

Doh! I was looking in the body, not the title.
So obviously not a hardware problem ... unusual, as far as I know. I've had much less problem getting XP to recognize sound than 98. I wasn't looking at it from a software perspective.

surreal · February 6th, 2002, 08:23 AM

You might want to try the MSI site.
Then even have a forum for tech support.

fyxxer32 · February 6th, 2002, 04:22 PM

I'll try the forums, the tech help DIDN'T!

fyxxer32 · February 16th, 2002, 01:38 AM

I was able to fyx my problem finally by downloading the latest audio drivers off the website.

jadison · February 16th, 2002, 02:02 AM

Glad to hear you got it fixed as I'm running the same board as u

-=jadison=-

fyxxer32 · February 16th, 2002, 02:08 AM

Actually the board belongs to a friend, but I went to MSI's forums and I read all kinds of things that worked and didn't work. All the way from flashing the BIOS to reloading the operating system. When I ran the install on the new sound drivers it was a fingers crossed thing you know. If it was mine I can mess with it here at home or at work , but at a friends house its not convenient access.