Problem with On-board Sound Card

ee808 · August 1st, 2003, 02:52 PM

Hi,
I purchased an ezbpc PC recently over ebay. The system came with a Matsonic MS9337C mobo with a SIS 648 chipset with an on-board sound card. I'm running Windows 98SE and I can't seem to get the sound card to work right. The driver CD that came with the package requested some system files that I couldn't locate so it didn't install correctly and it didn't work altogether. I downloaded the updated drivers on the Matsonic.com website and it still asked for certain files that didn't exist in the Win98se disk, but it allowed me to skip the files. This time it worked, but when I reboot, I loose the speaker icon on the bottom right toolbar. It plays the CD's but all my Windows .wav sounds don't work.

Thanks in advance for any help,
Frank

sKiT · August 1st, 2003, 03:08 PM

In the control panel under sounds, multimedia devices, is your default playback device your onboard sound? If not select it as your default. If it isnt listed, you will need to find a proper driver.

Welcome to TIMO Frank.

ee808 · August 1st, 2003, 03:37 PM

Thanks, sKit -
Under Multimedia - Devices tab - audio devices, it indicates that "Driver is enabled and functioning properly." However, under the same Multimedia - Audio tab, the whole section is greyed out.

tysfamily · September 6th, 2003, 12:57 AM

I have the same Motherboard bought from the same person, and by the way they have been throwen off of eBay for not sending the product nor returning the money. The motherboard has many system crashes. I have updated my BIOS, and have gone to the SiS web sight and down loaded the drivers from there. All of which work fine and their updates are out months before they ever get to Matsonic web sight. I am running Win98SE also, anything else is a waste of money and the older games don't work with NT, 2000 or XP. Plus DOS sound doesn't work with anything above Win98SE. I have an AUDIGY so I can't help on the On board sound execpt to say that you should get the drivers from SiS not Matsonic. I did run into an issue that the motherboard just locks up with the ATI 9700 Pro and the ATI AIW 9700 Pro, but works great with Nvidia Viedo Cards (GeForce 2, Ti500, all Ti 4000 serise cards(4200, 4400, 4600 & 4800) and the FX VGA cards. The motherboard has a major IRQ probulm where as you can't set an IRQ for the slot that you put a PSI, CNR or the AGP in. I just turn everything on in CMOS and the write down the IRQ's at Boot and the shut down the computer before Windows loads and move the card to another slot until I know where the best place is for each card. I try to never share an IRQ. If you run a network with the on board LAN, it's going to go to IRQ 11 and theres nothing that you can do about it. The VGA uses IRQ 11 and some VGA's will do nothing but crash over and over if you share an IRQ with them. Thats why the ATI's just won't work. Hope that you get it figured out. I have an 80GB HDD so I have the caps files from my Windows 98SE copied right to my HDD. Anytime that I install something and my computer requist a file or driver from the Windows CD it just goes to the file and gets it or I send it there for the file. By putting the caps files right on my HDD I don't lose files in the CD transfur and theres never anymistakes. I put it in from DOS at Boot so that I know that nothing got lost in the CD to HDD transfur. Email me and I can walk you through it if you like.
tysfamily

ee808 · September 9th, 2003, 03:58 PM

Thanks Tysfamily,
I resolved the onboard sound problem by installing a sound card. Like you mentioned, I encountered some problems with the IRQ's... so far I don't have too many add-ons so no overlaps. I do have a problem with my keyboard staying on (Num Lock light stays on) after I shut down. Did you experience the same problem? I'll take your advice and download the drivers from SiS. I was also thinking about using Win2000 or XPpro instead of 98SE... what's your advice/opinion on that?

Thanks for all your help!
Frank

tysfamily · September 9th, 2003, 09:12 PM

I have computers runing in my home, 1 for each menber of the family. The lights for the keyboard stay on, on all of them. That's because the Motherboard stays powered at 5 volts so that it can come out of standby. I install my PCI cards in each and veery slot and write down the IRQ's then I install my CNR Modem and then everyting else USB's Com and printer Ports even if I don't need them. When I'm done I check my IRQ's again and see whats what. Doing that tells me what shares what. Then I put my PCI cards in the best Lest shared slot. In this MS9337C I have an SiS CNR Moden, Audigy Retail and a Ti4200 8X gold AGP card With 3 USB's, onboard LAN and 2 COM Ports installed Printer Port shut off, my printer uses an USB but my Camara uses a COM Port. The Video is in the AGP slot of course, the CNR is in the CNR slot so all of my PCI slots are open and I found that useing N0#1 right beside the AGP uses the lest amount of IRQ's. I have the Modem turned on to use IRQ 3 and both COM Ports to share IRQ 4. I have the Sound Blaster Dos 16 Emulation sound reserved to IRQ 5. My Audigy was on 10 and the 1384 FireWire (on the Audigy card) was sharing 11 with my VGA so I disabled it, but when I turned on the LAN my Audigy went to 7 and the 1384 went to 3 to share with my modem so I turned it back on. That's why I shut off the printer port because it uses 7, 5 and 3. I have my modem on 3 SB Dos on 5 and Audigy on 7. Truning on the LAN and removing the Printer Port made everything work that I needed to use. Me haveing 5 computers I need the LAN anyway. As for Windows 98SE. I play older and new games. I can pick up Brand new games for $5 or less. If I run ME, NT, 2000 or XP then the older games don't work. Dos sound which is used on a lot of older games uses the SB 16 Emulation which doesn't work on any OS over Win 98SE. ME is just an upgrade of Win98Se but limits your games. Most hardware doesn't work with NT and a lot of venders don't have drivers for it. 2000 has too many conflects whit software. To use it you need to look up and see if what you want to use or buy has a conflict with it before you buy it. XP just cost too MUCH and you have to have a certfied copy for every computer that you own. When the others you can by 1 cope and use it on all of your personal computers. You paid for it and it's your so why shouldn't you be able to use it as loge as you don't sell copies or install it on friends computers. 1 note if I forgot no matter what I did I couldn't get ATI 9700Pro or the ATI AIW 9700 Pro to work with this motherboard.

tysfamily · September 9th, 2003, 09:55 PM

I have had Win98Se fail to find need drivers or files before when I installed Windows or was just installing a new program, game or software. To correct this, this is what I did. I made a Start up boot disk. Put the disk in and restart your computer. When it starts pick option #1 start with CD support. When it's done running your CD Rom drive letters will come up. They will be different that what they are when your running windows. Say your CD Ron/DVD player is D and you Burner is E. Then now the information from the boot disk is D the CD Rom will be E and the burner will be F. What ever just write down the drive letter. Put your Windows 98SE disk in. you will see A:\> beside it type the drive letter of the CD where you put the Windows CD in, such as E:\dir push Enter. if the disk is in there it will say you have something like 5 files and folder, if not then get back to A:\ and put in the next drive letter on your list and type dir and push Enter to see if it's there. Once you got the drive letter that you need pop out the floppy then beside the A:\> type C:\ and push enter ( if C is your HDD letter when in windows, 1 of mine is C Disk 1 check before you start to see just what it is so you'll know when you get here). When C:\> comes up beside it type MD WIN98 it should look something like this C:\>MD WIN98 push Enter. The C:\> should come back up. Now type CD WIN98 it should look something like this C:\>WIN98 push enter it should come up under and look like this C:\>WIN98 now beside that type copy E:\WIN98 and push enter (E if it's your drive letter or F it that's your drive letter). Now your computer will start to copy 102 files and folrers to drive C and in to the new folder that you made WIN98. When it's done restart your computer when Windows is done and your Desktop is up, go to the top left and click on MY Computer, when the next page opens click on C when it opens click on WIN98 and see if the 102 files are there. If everything went as planed then they will be there. From now on when you install something and the Win98 CD is required it will just go there or you can direct it there. By putting them on you HDD with DOS nothing is lost in the transfur as sometimes it does when reading it from the CD. You can Install you Windows this same way from a brand new HDD and once the files are there you will never have to use your Win98 CD again. To install Windows with this once your HDD is FDISKed, Go to A:\> FORMAT C:. Then do all of the above except after the 102 files are installed remove the WIN CD, get to C:\>WIN98 and type SETUP push Enter (C:\WIN98>SETUP) and there you are you never need the CD again and all program will aways go to C:\WIN98 from that time on.

ee808 · September 10th, 2003, 11:23 PM

Thanks Tysfamily!
I'll try it out.

tysfamily · September 13th, 2003, 04:12 AM

Something that I forgot. When in A:\> pop out the floppy before you enter drive E:\dir or F:\dir or it will just show the files off of A and you might think that your CD is in the wrong drive. once the CD and drive are comfurmend then pop the Floppy back in, type in A:\ push enter, once A:\> comes up Pop the floppy back out, type C:\ push enter and pick everything back up from there.