Lost sound

[DVOM]

Last night while listening to internet radio I lost the sound. Not entirely as it's now alot quieter.

I'm running a MSI KT3 Ultra2 mobo with onboard sound. I've tried restoring a ghost image of my XP Pro system, uninstalling the sound drivers and reinstalling, and checked the wires going to my stereo. And ran the wires to a different input on the stereo. Same quiet sound problem.

This mobo is about 2½ months old. I've checked it for leaking capacitors and don't see any.

Any suggestions? TIA

[Fuelm@n]

Did you check to see if the sound wasn't Muted? You may also go to Master Volume and check if there's something muted there also.

[DVOM]

Fuelm@n, thanks for the response. Yeah, I had checked that several times. It was like I had about 5% of the volume and very bad sound. I could crank my stereo all the way up and get tolerable volume. But the voices were distorted, bass had dropped out, etc. I finally went and got a Creative SoundBlaster card and put that in.

That fixed the problem.

Do you know if this is a typical failure on mobos? Up til now I had never had a failure of any kind on a motherboard.
Doesn't bode well for buying an MSI board next time around. Hopefully nothing else fails on it and I won't have to try to RMA the thing.

[Fuelm@n]

Anything is possible, and nothing surprises me.

Did you disable the onboard sound also? I'm sure you did... 2½ months mobo, I'd be writing up and calling for that RMA.