No Sound - Realtek ALC888

[Mechanics Fan]

Having built a new system I have no audio playback sound. The motherboard is an MSI NEO2-FR P35 with the Realtek ALC888 onboard sound. When installing the motherboard chipset drivers I installed the Realtek High Definition Audio driver which installed the Realtek HD Audio Manager, which sits in the System Tray. Then when I installed the drivers for the ATI Radeon 3870 graphics card, it installed the ATI Function Driver for High Definition Audio.

When I plugged in my headphones (with microphone) into the front panel, the jack auto-sensing picked them up but when I played a music track there was no sound. Opening the Realtek HD Audio Manager, when selecting headphones in the Audio I/O tab, it played the demo sounds in each ear in turn (nothing wrong with the headphones).

The default settings in the Sounds and Audio Devices area of the Control Panel are:

Sounds tab
Sound scheme: Windows default
Audio tab
Sound playback: ATI HD Audio rear output
Sound recording: Realtek HD Audio input
MIDI music playback: Microsoft GS Wavetable SW Synth
Voice tab
Voice playback: ATI HD Audio rear output
Voice recording: Realtek HD Audio input

I presume that I have a conflict in the above and hopefully someone can point me in the right direction.

Thanks

John

[Jonny2Bad]

Change all the settings to the realtek, its trying to playback thru the ati settings.

[Mechanics Fan]

Thanks Jonny

Have changed the settings to the Realtek and now have sound :) It's good to have such knowledgeable and helpful people on these forums.

Once again, thanks

John

[matz]

tell me if you have any problems working a microphone on that motherboard, took me a while for me.

[Mechanics Fan]

Thanks Matz, I haven't looked at the mic yet but if I encounter problems, I'll be in touch. :)

[Mechanics Fan]

Hi Matz, my son wants to use the microphone so any help you can give would be greatly appreciated.

[matz]

so its not plug in play like mine?

[Mechanics Fan]

Plug n' play cheap headset (fiver from Tesco) by Technika. Sound from headphones OK but nothing from the mic.