No Audio

**Lateralus** · February 25th, 2002, 12:12 AM

I have 2 hard drives. Master is quantum 10g 7200 and the slave drive is WD 30gig. I am not getting audio from my games if I install them to the Slave drive. I can un-install the game and load it to my Master drive and audio works great. Its like this with all the games I have tried. I installed all updated drivers and I still have the same issue. Any Ideas?

Specs Epox 8k7a, 1.2 Tbird, 256 ddr.

**Lateralus** · February 25th, 2002, 08:13 PM

No guesses? I cant believe you PC gurus havent answered this problem yet.. You guys are usually very fast!

**bigblue77** · February 25th, 2002, 08:22 PM

Bad ribbon cable? Its worth a shot I guess.

Jer

**Lateralus** · February 25th, 2002, 08:53 PM

I have not tried another ribbon cable. I guess I could try it..
Heres the deal in full. A couple of months ago I took a ghost image of my C drive. Everything is the same now as it was then.
Well, I got this bad habit--- I'm a chronic Reformater. When my drives aren't exactly like I want em, I reformat.

So, I formatted both drives and installed my ghost image just as I have many times in the past. The case was never opened so I doubt the cable is bad, not certain though. I installed CS, RTCW, MS combat flight sim to the D or slave drive. I can play the games but there is no audio. I installed all the games to my Master drive and every thing is good.
One more thing to add. My downloaded morpheus files are also saved on the slave drive. I just downloaded a couple of mp3 files and audio sounds great. It appears to only be the games that I cant hear.
Also, I reformatted more than once yesterday and couldnt get the problem resolved.

Anymore ideas or guesses?

**amdkt7** · February 26th, 2002, 10:19 AM

Sounds like maybe a DMA problem with your sound card and the ide controller.

Do you have your hard drives on the same IDE controller? They should normally be together and the cdrom on the second controller.

You might have to try a different configuration, such as putting the second drive on IDE2 with the cd (not recommended, but it might fix your problem, then again that maybe your problem).

You might also want to try a different soundcard, or try changing the settings in device manger.

**Lateralus** · February 26th, 2002, 11:17 PM

My hard drives are on the same IDE controller. I will try switching the different ports and get back with ya.

Thanks

**Lateralus** · March 4th, 2002, 09:25 AM

I got my problem corrected. Something about the the ghost image causing the problem. I did a full load yesterday and problem is solved. Dont know why the ghost image wouldnt work though, it did befofe.

Thanks, Jody