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Realteck 5.1 (6 channel) sound problem
Hi,
I have finally got round to connecting all my speakers up to my fairly new PC. I have a Soundblaster desktop 5.1 speaker system and my new mobo, aa ASrock N68PV-GS, has 3 rear connectors for the onboard Realtek ALC662 system. I connect up my 3 cables, Front Green to Green on the mobo, middle black/blue and the centre/bass pink/orange to the mic in. The Realteck control panel objects to this mic connection. No matter what I try I get everything via the two front speakers. All is set up to 5.1 in the control panel, I have checked all my cables are well seated and in good condition. I have installed the latest drivers so what am I missing please. Thanks in advance, Dave. |
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Realteck 5.1 (6 channel) sound problem
R.click the speaker by the clock,select "open volume control",make sure the
volume isnt muted with a check in the box,edit the others.Click on the options box,see if playback is set.Otherwise,go to run,type: DXDIAG Run the Direct X audio tests. "Squeezy99" wrote: Hi, I have finally got round to connecting all my speakers up to my fairly new PC. I have a Soundblaster desktop 5.1 speaker system and my new mobo, aa ASrock N68PV-GS, has 3 rear connectors for the onboard Realtek ALC662 system. I connect up my 3 cables, Front Green to Green on the mobo, middle black/blue and the centre/bass pink/orange to the mic in. The Realteck control panel objects to this mic connection. No matter what I try I get everything via the two front speakers. All is set up to 5.1 in the control panel, I have checked all my cables are well seated and in good condition. I have installed the latest drivers so what am I missing please. Thanks in advance, Dave. . |
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Realteck 5.1 (6 channel) sound problem
R.click the speaker by the clock,select "open volume control",make sure the volume isnt muted with a check in the box,edit the others.Click on the options box,see if playback is set.Otherwise,go to run,type: DXDIAG Run the Direct X audio tests. "Squeezy99" wrote: Hi, I have finally got round to connecting all my speakers up to my fairly new PC. I have a Soundblaster desktop 5.1 speaker system and my new mobo, aa ASrock N68PV-GS, has 3 rear connectors for the onboard Realtek ALC662 system. I connect up my 3 cables, Front Green to Green on the mobo, middle black/blue and the centre/bass pink/orange to the mic in. The Realteck control panel objects to this mic connection. No matter what I try I get everything via the two front speakers. All is set up to 5.1 in the control panel, I have checked all my cables are well seated and in good condition. I have installed the latest drivers so what am I missing please. Thanks in advance, Dave. . |
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Realteck 5.1 (6 channel) sound problem
Hi Andrew, thanks for the reply. Tried your suggestions but all OK.
Every setting in control panel sounds are as they should be for 5.1 - I have run through them many times tonight. The Realtek panel is also all correct but shows this connection problem. I suppose I will have to check the mobo cables and connections for the sound system. Cheers, Dave. "Andrew E." wrote in message ... R.click the speaker by the clock,select "open volume control",make sure the volume isnt muted with a check in the box,edit the others.Click on the options box,see if playback is set.Otherwise,go to run,type: DXDIAG Run the Direct X audio tests. "Squeezy99" wrote: Hi, I have finally got round to connecting all my speakers up to my fairly new PC. I have a Soundblaster desktop 5.1 speaker system and my new mobo, aa ASrock N68PV-GS, has 3 rear connectors for the onboard Realtek ALC662 system. I connect up my 3 cables, Front Green to Green on the mobo, middle black/blue and the centre/bass pink/orange to the mic in. The Realteck control panel objects to this mic connection. No matter what I try I get everything via the two front speakers. All is set up to 5.1 in the control panel, I have checked all my cables are well seated and in good condition. I have installed the latest drivers so what am I missing please. Thanks in advance, Dave. . |
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Realteck 5.1 (6 channel) sound problem
Hi Andrew, thanks for the reply. Tried your suggestions but all OK.
Every setting in control panel sounds are as they should be for 5.1 - I have run through them many times tonight. The Realtek panel is also all correct but shows this connection problem. I suppose I will have to check the mobo cables and connections for the sound system. Cheers, Dave. "Andrew E." wrote in message ... R.click the speaker by the clock,select "open volume control",make sure the volume isnt muted with a check in the box,edit the others.Click on the options box,see if playback is set.Otherwise,go to run,type: DXDIAG Run the Direct X audio tests. "Squeezy99" wrote: Hi, I have finally got round to connecting all my speakers up to my fairly new PC. I have a Soundblaster desktop 5.1 speaker system and my new mobo, aa ASrock N68PV-GS, has 3 rear connectors for the onboard Realtek ALC662 system. I connect up my 3 cables, Front Green to Green on the mobo, middle black/blue and the centre/bass pink/orange to the mic in. The Realteck control panel objects to this mic connection. No matter what I try I get everything via the two front speakers. All is set up to 5.1 in the control panel, I have checked all my cables are well seated and in good condition. I have installed the latest drivers so what am I missing please. Thanks in advance, Dave. . |
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Realteck 5.1 (6 channel) sound problem
Squeezy99 wrote:
Hi Andrew, thanks for the reply. Tried your suggestions but all OK. Every setting in control panel sounds are as they should be for 5.1 - I have run through them many times tonight. The Realtek panel is also all correct but shows this connection problem. I suppose I will have to check the mobo cables and connections for the sound system. Cheers, Dave. This is purely a guess. Your front panel audio header, has two interfaces on it. It has "Mic In" and "Headphones". The manual mentions a setting of "Please select Front Mic as default recording source" It could be, that once you're selecting "Front Mic", the rear microphone input can be redefined as an output. A similar issue might arise, if you attempted to select "Line In" while in 6 channel mode. I doubt the driver would like that either. You have to "clear the decks" of all input modes on the rear jacks, to get 5.1 mode. By selecting "Front Mic" as the sole input source, the rear jacks should all be outputs. The manual mentions another setting... "Disable Front Panel jack detection" HDAudio uses isolated switches on the side of the jacks. When a plug is inserted in the jack hole, the body of the plug presses on a switch. Up to four switches are combined together in s sensing tree. Using two sense wires, the audio chip can sense the state of eight switches. The "Disable Front Panel jack detection" is disabling that function. The reason for this, is the majority of computer cases lack the correct wiring for that function. The computer cases are usually wired for AC'97 and not for HDAudio. I have an ALC662 on my current motherboard, and I don't see any symptoms of having jack detection on mine. I just plugged in three audio cables to my rear jacks, and the audio control panel didn't react at all. On my Soundmax audio motherboard, the Soundmax software would say something cute like "what did you just plug in". The Soundmax has impedance sensing, and it can detect a 10K ohm amplified computer speaker, or can detect a 32 ohm set of headphones. At least on my ALC662 right now, it doesn't notice when the plugs are inserted. So it may not have impedance sensing as a backup system to the "isolated switch inside the jack" thing. That is why in my answer above, I'm focusing on the conflict between jack definitions. By telling the audio chip, that you're using a front microphone, it is going to stop thinking about the rear jack as a microphone. It doesn't matter that no microphone is plugged into the FP_Audio header on the motherboard. It's more a matter of fooling the chip into thinking that is where the microphone is located. If the chip had impedance sensing, it may have been able to determine you were telling a lie :-) I actually hate the hardware notion of jack sensing, because more often than not, it conflicts with a user's ability to get things done. It is automation without purpose. HTH, Paul "Andrew E." wrote in message ... R.click the speaker by the clock,select "open volume control",make sure the volume isnt muted with a check in the box,edit the others.Click on the options box,see if playback is set.Otherwise,go to run,type: DXDIAG Run the Direct X audio tests. "Squeezy99" wrote: Hi, I have finally got round to connecting all my speakers up to my fairly new PC. I have a Soundblaster desktop 5.1 speaker system and my new mobo, aa ASrock N68PV-GS, has 3 rear connectors for the onboard Realtek ALC662 system. I connect up my 3 cables, Front Green to Green on the mobo, middle black/blue and the centre/bass pink/orange to the mic in. The Realteck control panel objects to this mic connection. No matter what I try I get everything via the two front speakers. All is set up to 5.1 in the control panel, I have checked all my cables are well seated and in good condition. I have installed the latest drivers so what am I missing please. Thanks in advance, Dave. |
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Realteck 5.1 (6 channel) sound problem
Squeezy99 wrote:
Hi Andrew, thanks for the reply. Tried your suggestions but all OK. Every setting in control panel sounds are as they should be for 5.1 - I have run through them many times tonight. The Realtek panel is also all correct but shows this connection problem. I suppose I will have to check the mobo cables and connections for the sound system. Cheers, Dave. This is purely a guess. Your front panel audio header, has two interfaces on it. It has "Mic In" and "Headphones". The manual mentions a setting of "Please select Front Mic as default recording source" It could be, that once you're selecting "Front Mic", the rear microphone input can be redefined as an output. A similar issue might arise, if you attempted to select "Line In" while in 6 channel mode. I doubt the driver would like that either. You have to "clear the decks" of all input modes on the rear jacks, to get 5.1 mode. By selecting "Front Mic" as the sole input source, the rear jacks should all be outputs. The manual mentions another setting... "Disable Front Panel jack detection" HDAudio uses isolated switches on the side of the jacks. When a plug is inserted in the jack hole, the body of the plug presses on a switch. Up to four switches are combined together in s sensing tree. Using two sense wires, the audio chip can sense the state of eight switches. The "Disable Front Panel jack detection" is disabling that function. The reason for this, is the majority of computer cases lack the correct wiring for that function. The computer cases are usually wired for AC'97 and not for HDAudio. I have an ALC662 on my current motherboard, and I don't see any symptoms of having jack detection on mine. I just plugged in three audio cables to my rear jacks, and the audio control panel didn't react at all. On my Soundmax audio motherboard, the Soundmax software would say something cute like "what did you just plug in". The Soundmax has impedance sensing, and it can detect a 10K ohm amplified computer speaker, or can detect a 32 ohm set of headphones. At least on my ALC662 right now, it doesn't notice when the plugs are inserted. So it may not have impedance sensing as a backup system to the "isolated switch inside the jack" thing. That is why in my answer above, I'm focusing on the conflict between jack definitions. By telling the audio chip, that you're using a front microphone, it is going to stop thinking about the rear jack as a microphone. It doesn't matter that no microphone is plugged into the FP_Audio header on the motherboard. It's more a matter of fooling the chip into thinking that is where the microphone is located. If the chip had impedance sensing, it may have been able to determine you were telling a lie :-) I actually hate the hardware notion of jack sensing, because more often than not, it conflicts with a user's ability to get things done. It is automation without purpose. HTH, Paul "Andrew E." wrote in message ... R.click the speaker by the clock,select "open volume control",make sure the volume isnt muted with a check in the box,edit the others.Click on the options box,see if playback is set.Otherwise,go to run,type: DXDIAG Run the Direct X audio tests. "Squeezy99" wrote: Hi, I have finally got round to connecting all my speakers up to my fairly new PC. I have a Soundblaster desktop 5.1 speaker system and my new mobo, aa ASrock N68PV-GS, has 3 rear connectors for the onboard Realtek ALC662 system. I connect up my 3 cables, Front Green to Green on the mobo, middle black/blue and the centre/bass pink/orange to the mic in. The Realteck control panel objects to this mic connection. No matter what I try I get everything via the two front speakers. All is set up to 5.1 in the control panel, I have checked all my cables are well seated and in good condition. I have installed the latest drivers so what am I missing please. Thanks in advance, Dave. |
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Realteck 5.1 (6 channel) sound problem
Hi Paul,
thanks for the help I spent a few hours going round in circles after checking the front panel cables etc. My mobo book first talks about multi streaming but that was a dead end. I finally found an article explaining this. Then I managed to find an article that explains about the "Disable Front Panel jack detection" that you mention so I tried this once again and it turned out to be the answer. he problem is there are so many combinations of settings and it is difficult to find the place to "start again" each time. Many thanks. Dave "Paul" wrote in message ... Squeezy99 wrote: Hi Andrew, thanks for the reply. Tried your suggestions but all OK. Every setting in control panel sounds are as they should be for 5.1 - I have run through them many times tonight. The Realtek panel is also all correct but shows this connection problem. I suppose I will have to check the mobo cables and connections for the sound system. Cheers, Dave. This is purely a guess. Your front panel audio header, has two interfaces on it. It has "Mic In" and "Headphones". The manual mentions a setting of "Please select Front Mic as default recording source" It could be, that once you're selecting "Front Mic", the rear microphone input can be redefined as an output. A similar issue might arise, if you attempted to select "Line In" while in 6 channel mode. I doubt the driver would like that either. You have to "clear the decks" of all input modes on the rear jacks, to get 5.1 mode. By selecting "Front Mic" as the sole input source, the rear jacks should all be outputs. The manual mentions another setting... "Disable Front Panel jack detection" HDAudio uses isolated switches on the side of the jacks. When a plug is inserted in the jack hole, the body of the plug presses on a switch. Up to four switches are combined together in s sensing tree. Using two sense wires, the audio chip can sense the state of eight switches. The "Disable Front Panel jack detection" is disabling that function. The reason for this, is the majority of computer cases lack the correct wiring for that function. The computer cases are usually wired for AC'97 and not for HDAudio. I have an ALC662 on my current motherboard, and I don't see any symptoms of having jack detection on mine. I just plugged in three audio cables to my rear jacks, and the audio control panel didn't react at all. On my Soundmax audio motherboard, the Soundmax software would say something cute like "what did you just plug in". The Soundmax has impedance sensing, and it can detect a 10K ohm amplified computer speaker, or can detect a 32 ohm set of headphones. At least on my ALC662 right now, it doesn't notice when the plugs are inserted. So it may not have impedance sensing as a backup system to the "isolated switch inside the jack" thing. That is why in my answer above, I'm focusing on the conflict between jack definitions. By telling the audio chip, that you're using a front microphone, it is going to stop thinking about the rear jack as a microphone. It doesn't matter that no microphone is plugged into the FP_Audio header on the motherboard. It's more a matter of fooling the chip into thinking that is where the microphone is located. If the chip had impedance sensing, it may have been able to determine you were telling a lie :-) I actually hate the hardware notion of jack sensing, because more often than not, it conflicts with a user's ability to get things done. It is automation without purpose. HTH, Paul "Andrew E." wrote in message ... R.click the speaker by the clock,select "open volume control",make sure the volume isnt muted with a check in the box,edit the others.Click on the options box,see if playback is set.Otherwise,go to run,type: DXDIAG Run the Direct X audio tests. "Squeezy99" wrote: Hi, I have finally got round to connecting all my speakers up to my fairly new PC. I have a Soundblaster desktop 5.1 speaker system and my new mobo, aa ASrock N68PV-GS, has 3 rear connectors for the onboard Realtek ALC662 system. I connect up my 3 cables, Front Green to Green on the mobo, middle black/blue and the centre/bass pink/orange to the mic in. The Realteck control panel objects to this mic connection. No matter what I try I get everything via the two front speakers. All is set up to 5.1 in the control panel, I have checked all my cables are well seated and in good condition. I have installed the latest drivers so what am I missing please. Thanks in advance, Dave. |
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Realteck 5.1 (6 channel) sound problem
Hi Paul,
thanks for the help I spent a few hours going round in circles after checking the front panel cables etc. My mobo book first talks about multi streaming but that was a dead end. I finally found an article explaining this. Then I managed to find an article that explains about the "Disable Front Panel jack detection" that you mention so I tried this once again and it turned out to be the answer. he problem is there are so many combinations of settings and it is difficult to find the place to "start again" each time. Many thanks. Dave "Paul" wrote in message ... Squeezy99 wrote: Hi Andrew, thanks for the reply. Tried your suggestions but all OK. Every setting in control panel sounds are as they should be for 5.1 - I have run through them many times tonight. The Realtek panel is also all correct but shows this connection problem. I suppose I will have to check the mobo cables and connections for the sound system. Cheers, Dave. This is purely a guess. Your front panel audio header, has two interfaces on it. It has "Mic In" and "Headphones". The manual mentions a setting of "Please select Front Mic as default recording source" It could be, that once you're selecting "Front Mic", the rear microphone input can be redefined as an output. A similar issue might arise, if you attempted to select "Line In" while in 6 channel mode. I doubt the driver would like that either. You have to "clear the decks" of all input modes on the rear jacks, to get 5.1 mode. By selecting "Front Mic" as the sole input source, the rear jacks should all be outputs. The manual mentions another setting... "Disable Front Panel jack detection" HDAudio uses isolated switches on the side of the jacks. When a plug is inserted in the jack hole, the body of the plug presses on a switch. Up to four switches are combined together in s sensing tree. Using two sense wires, the audio chip can sense the state of eight switches. The "Disable Front Panel jack detection" is disabling that function. The reason for this, is the majority of computer cases lack the correct wiring for that function. The computer cases are usually wired for AC'97 and not for HDAudio. I have an ALC662 on my current motherboard, and I don't see any symptoms of having jack detection on mine. I just plugged in three audio cables to my rear jacks, and the audio control panel didn't react at all. On my Soundmax audio motherboard, the Soundmax software would say something cute like "what did you just plug in". The Soundmax has impedance sensing, and it can detect a 10K ohm amplified computer speaker, or can detect a 32 ohm set of headphones. At least on my ALC662 right now, it doesn't notice when the plugs are inserted. So it may not have impedance sensing as a backup system to the "isolated switch inside the jack" thing. That is why in my answer above, I'm focusing on the conflict between jack definitions. By telling the audio chip, that you're using a front microphone, it is going to stop thinking about the rear jack as a microphone. It doesn't matter that no microphone is plugged into the FP_Audio header on the motherboard. It's more a matter of fooling the chip into thinking that is where the microphone is located. If the chip had impedance sensing, it may have been able to determine you were telling a lie :-) I actually hate the hardware notion of jack sensing, because more often than not, it conflicts with a user's ability to get things done. It is automation without purpose. HTH, Paul "Andrew E." wrote in message ... R.click the speaker by the clock,select "open volume control",make sure the volume isnt muted with a check in the box,edit the others.Click on the options box,see if playback is set.Otherwise,go to run,type: DXDIAG Run the Direct X audio tests. "Squeezy99" wrote: Hi, I have finally got round to connecting all my speakers up to my fairly new PC. I have a Soundblaster desktop 5.1 speaker system and my new mobo, aa ASrock N68PV-GS, has 3 rear connectors for the onboard Realtek ALC662 system. I connect up my 3 cables, Front Green to Green on the mobo, middle black/blue and the centre/bass pink/orange to the mic in. The Realteck control panel objects to this mic connection. No matter what I try I get everything via the two front speakers. All is set up to 5.1 in the control panel, I have checked all my cables are well seated and in good condition. I have installed the latest drivers so what am I missing please. Thanks in advance, Dave. |
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