AGP 4X, AC97 Both don't work!

[Suthern]

I bought this motherboard about 1/2 year ago. i've tried everything. Currently, all my devices are on thier LATEST drivers, and my MB is on its latest BIOS from the manufacture.

SYS specs:

1.2 T-bird
RADEON 64mb DDR VI/VO <latest drivers>
512 PC133 Ram
K7VZM (built in AC'97 sound and LAN)
^^^^ running on latest BIOS

Now, as soon As I got this motherboard, I plug it all in and boot up. Everything boots fine. When I enter windows (2000), I knowtice that the little speaker icon in the systray dosn't show up. In Device Manger, there is only audio and video codecs, but no actual soundcard listed!!...

I download all the newest sound drivers, video drivers, VIA 4-in-1 drivers <including the GART>, and procceed to install. the 4-in1 drivers work fine, but the ALC100 (AC'97 codec) won't install!! It says &quot;Onboard sound is NOT enabled in Bios. Please restart and enable it, then try running setup again&quot;!!!

I then try a series of: enableing it in Bios, checking and changing jumper settings, and trying to run the setup program. NOTHING WORKED!!!! Always came up with the same error, and NO speaker in the systray <and no sound out of the jacks>. I e-mailed tech support. They simply suggusted checking my Jumper settings, and bios settings again. Belive me, I've tried that! I've tried all combonations I can think up! Also, 4X AGP NEVER worked. All I could get was 1X or 2X
(My Radeon 64mb DDR supports 4X)

ALl of that happend about 5 months ago, and since then, I've been living without sound, and without 4X agp.

Well, thankyou for reading all of the above I still try to get my sound to work, or 4X agp, but nothing works....

Does anyone have any ideas?

-Suthern

 

[Guest_imported]

Try re-installing windows making sure everything is enabled in BIOS.

 

[Mulga]

I agree with Newbie, from your post it would seem that you hooked up an HDD with an existing Windows installation on it. This is not a good idea although it will work sometimes, particularly if the new and old motherboards are similar.
You seem to have tried everything else, if a new clean install of windows does not work I would suggest the mobo is faulty

 

[Suthern]

Forgot to mention, I also reformatted the HD a couple of times, reinstalled windows, and even re partitined it.....

same error..

Thanks for the help though!!

-Suthern

 

[ceh4702]

There are BIOS settings for AC97 sound. Did you turn it on?
On some boards the AC97 sound was optional. You might also have a sound driver addon package that is on the setup disk for the computer. You still have to turn it on in the BIOS, I think. If you do not like my post feel free to point out your opinion or my errors.

 

[Suthern]

As I said, I DID turn on the options in the BIOS! And I tried differn't configurations with them, and the jumper settings on the motherboard. same error):

-Suthern

 

[Mulga]

This is starting to look very much like a faulty motherboard.

 

[Guest_imported]

I have seen similar problems noted with AC97 sound chips.
My guess is you have a via chipset (apollo/133 or 266) there is a long thread on this topic on the via site (forums)

http://forums.viaarena.com/categories.cfm?catid=17.

I had a similar problem with win98 and solved it by switching to the VXD version of the drivers (not an option on win2000).

 

[Suthern]

Thank you so much for pointing me to the forum!!!! aparently I'm NOT the only one with this problem!

thanx again, and I'll let the board know if it gets fixed.

-Suthern