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Replaced Purple MB with an A7N8X-LA and have no sound.

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mahkeymike:
I am pretty sure he meant he is going to install XP on a different hard drive with this mobo and see if sound works. Which is what i would do if i wasnt sure if it was a software or hardware problem. But i already know sound works on this mobo with Ion 2008 so chances are the motherboard sound is bad.

And to answer your question ed, No it does not wreck the firmware on the hard drive controller. I really dont think you understand how this works. There is no magic special layer. Just like you can flash a mobo bios, you can also flash the bios on the hard drives controller.(firmware) You can also edit the firmware if you know what your doing. In merits case, they edited the model# in the firmware and flashed it to the hard drives controller. Then there software checks for the hard drives model# and tells you its not an official hard drive if it doesnt see "MERIT" in the model#

ed12:
well his wording
never mind I see it now  :banghead: :banghead:
the op said install on another drive

>I did search the forum and tried the suggestions. Nothing worked. The driver seems to load fine. I did a hardware discovery using the dip switch setting too. I am starting to think that this "new" MB is faulty. I am going to install XP on a drive and see if I can get sounds out of this MB using XP.<

ed

GrimJack:
Thanks for all the responses. Ih ave confirmed by installing XP on a different drive that the sound is not working on the new MB. I asked for a replacement. I did find something interesting. Here is the series of events:

1) Original MB was dead.
2) Replaced it with the ASUS MB. CMOS battery was dead.
3) No sound. Got tired of it keep asking me for settings each time I turned it off.
4) Installed new battery.
5) Booted once and tried to get the sound working. No luck so powered off.
6) New MB would not power on again. ( Just like the original MB. ) Only thing that was different.... New battery.
7) Removed the new CMOS battery. New MB boots again
8) Confirmed new MB has faulty sound by installing XP and Realtek drivers.
9) New idea... What if I try the battery removal trick with the original MB.
10) Guess what.... The original MB powers up when I removed the CMOS battery!

I do not know what this means in the grand scheme of things but I am going to complete the transition back to the original MB and see what happens.

mahkeymike:
Replace the CMOS batt on the original MB and put a pc power button switch on the front panel jumper pin. Most likely your CMOS settings are set incorrectly. You need to go into the BIOS and reset defaults.

GrimJack:
OK. I replaced the battery. It is booting fine. I have had Dell PC's do this where the charge needed to be drained on the MB. Weird. Anyway, I now have a replacement MB with no sound that I have asked the eBay seller for another and I also bought a used A7N8X-LA for $29 in case the original MB dies again. Thanks for all the responses.

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