No Audio on nForce 680i

I tried to add to the other topic, but it was quite old and had nothing to do with my problem (other than the same Motherboards).

As in the subject, I have an eVGA nForce 680i SLi Mainboard. There's no detected audio device in the system profile (using XP SP3). I have added a Creative SoundBlaster XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Professional 7.1 between the GeForce8800GTX GPU's. The Sound card is fit and snug in the PCI slot under the SLi bridge. It even gets power (as the little "F" Light comes on). However, the System refuses to acknowledge it's presence.

Furthermore, I have installed the "Audio Drivers" on the eVGA CD-ROM. But even then, the system does not show any audio device, and any sort of multimedia will fail to play by default because of this.

Secondly, the Motherboard appears not to accept anymore RAM into it. Using two identical sticks of 1GB RAM, the machine would only boot up if one of them were in the DIMM Slot 3. Placing the second stick in Slot 0 or 2 yielded a POST Error of 1D, while Slot 1 gave the grevious POST Code C1.

The board has quite the personality. The GPU's work though!

 

Hi and welcome to the BBS,

Try running Control Panel -> Add Hardware (wizard). If it will not detect the hardware by using the Let Windows Detect the Hardware selection, use the selection to choose the device from a list. You will need to direct it to the folder where the drivers were installed.

The on-board audio (I take it that it does have on-board audio) is not detected either? Look in the BIOS settings in case the audio has been disabled (it may be easier to check through the settings in the motherboard manual).

If you cannot get either working, look for other hardware that you can remove or disable, if you do not use it. The system may then reallocate resources for the audio.

I have a motherboard that will not recognise the audio when an nVidia graphics card is installed OR when an ATI card is installed, the LAN adapter disappears . Since you are running SLI, it may compound your problem.

Check through the motherboard manual in case there may be a special setting for running a single graphics card or SLI. Mine has one.

Matt