Is digital audio output enabled? If it is, you'll get no analog output really common on HPs/Compaq/Gateway that shipped originally with Boston Accoustic digital speakers.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 7:57 AM To: The Hardware List Subject: [H] SoundBlaster PCI 128 CT4730 & Auto Play Issues I have formatted Drive C and done a clean install of Windows XP on a Compaq Presario S4100CL Athlon 2600+ computer. I have done all of the Windows updates etc. The onboard Realtek AC '97 Audio allows Windows Media Player 10 to play audio in different formats, but the final output (the green one) sends on audio to speakers or headphones that I know work. I have check the standard settings for volume levels and nothing is muted. I disabled the onboard audio in the BIOS and re-enabled it, still to no avail. I disabled it again and tried to install a SoundBlaster PCI 128 CT4730 sound card, but the install of the software hangs up windows, even in Safe Mode. I tried each of the available 3 PCI slots with only the sound card, leaving the other two PCI slots open, to no avail. I am sound card poor here in my shop since most computers have been using onboard audio for years. Only recently did I finally sell of my last SoundBlaster Live! and Soundblaster PCI 128 cards and have just bought these two new PCI 128 cards to install in computers with inoperative onboard audio. I have no other models to try. I did install one of these SB PCI 128's into my shop computer and it works fine. This mess is just another piece of convince evidence I have gathered in over 8 years to prove to me that custom built computers are far more easier to work with than name brand computers. Not only does the onboard audio fail to send audio to speakers or headphones and the sound card will not install, Auto Play will not work either. I tried two new CD/DVD devices, to no avail. I checked the Auto Play settings and they are all ok. This is a rebuild into a new case of a Compaq computer. If I can not resolve the audio issue, I will end up having to trash this motherboard and CPU. Surely I am missing some simple something. Perhaps it is as simple as trying different brand sound cards until I find one that is acceptable to the Compaq motherboard. Have any of you went through a stack of different brand sound cards trying to get one to work in a computer? I have in the past. I do not have a stack of them to go through this time. Is Auto Play tied into this problem somehow? Any ideas in solving the audio and Auto Play problems will be deeply appreciated. Thanks in advance, Chuck
