Front audio panel

[newalex]

Hey there, my motherboard is  M68M S2P. I buyed the board half year ago when I dident used the front audio pannel, now that I got a headset and use the front audio panel jack, the audio dosent work at all.

After 1 fustrating day searching on google I found that problem is the realtek drivers. Now I go to the realtek manager I did enable the "Disable auto detection of front pannel" option and it works. Problem is that the sound in front audio pannel IS NOT STEREO, I tested with the manager left to right test and I only hear the left of the headset, I insert the headset in to the back of the motherboard and it sounds stereo like should be. In front pannel dosent work in stereo mode, only mono mode.

º have lastest gigabyte driver 6.0.1.6449 (aka 2.56)
º I updated the bios to lastest version, with the @bios aplication fron the mob CD and set all bios to default settings.
º headset is ok, I tested with the normal speakers and same thing
º I triple checked that the F_Audio cables are inserted correctly, the front pannel have only a HD audio cable with 1 pin missing
º only one option in bios "enable/auto" for onboard audio chip, no option for front audio pannel
º If I unistall and istall the lastest driver from realtek website It dosent work. But win update installs the 6.0.1.6449, and I found out that is the 2.56
º I am on vista 32bit, anthlonII, 4gb DDR3, everything working well
º Seems that realtek or the Bios(M68M-S2P FC) dosent support this motherboard very well. No support at all for the front pannel output line.



Any idea how to fix the drivers so I can hear in "stereo" from front audio pannel?



thanx

[Dark Mantis]

Hi and welcome.

It sounds to me like a connection fault here. Have another look at the cable that you have used for the connection for the front audio. If it is a jack socket no doubt on the other end there will be two plugs. One of these will be for AC97 and the other for HD/Digital.

[newalex]

Thanx for your answer, anyway I belive the box onnly have 1 cable for the front audio pannel and is the HD cable, anyway gona open it to see again and tell you later and gona make photos so you can see

[Dark Mantis]

That's a good idea. The dual cable is only a single cable with two different ends on so you can choose which to connect up.

[autotech]

Also look at your plug that goes into the front panel on headset does it have 1 ring or 2. 1 ring is mono sound and 2 is stero just covering the basics.

[Dark Mantis]

Good point autotech I hadn't thought of that.

[absic]

As the OP is getting Stereo from the rear panel but not the front header with his headphones,

Problem is that the sound in front audio pannel IS NOT STEREO, I tested with the manager left to right test and I only hear the left of the headset, I insert the headset in to the back of the motherboard and it sounds stereo like should be. In front pannel dosent work in stereo mode, only mono mode.

Headset is ok, I tested with the normal speakers and same thing.

Along with DM I too would suspect a dodgy cable/connection between the front panel socket and the motherboard and this is the area I would be looking at. If possible, check the wiring on the socket of the front panel of the PC Case as I have known these to become detached or even to be shorted out.

[agros]

I have also problem with the frond panel of my mobo(I think I ve posted in another thread) and when I connect headphones I have to put them in back panel:/

[newalex]

dident look at the cable yet gona do it tomrow, but anyway I think is the realtek drivers seen many ppl having same issue. had a msi board and this dident happend...

[Dark Mantis]

Well just keep us up to speed and maybe we can get to the bottom of it in the end.

[Aussie Allan]

 Realtek takes us back to the days of a surgically clean driver install with no trace or reminence of the older driver.....no ones fault except Realtek!

  Aussie Allan

[newalex]

I tooked the photos, and after I closed the box and was ready to transferr them to the pc, the movile auto deleded them before I could do that

 I unpluged/pluged the cables and I took a closer look at the jacks and have same conection as the other edge but is fixed and I cant uplug the cables from the jacks, wanted to test them anyway and to my surprise problem was fixed, no know how I guess some dusty jacks. Still realtek junky drivers dosent detect the front panel.

Anyway now im enjoing the HD sound(razer headset ) in the front pannel, sorry for all the mess and thanx for all replies, my next grafic card will be gigabyte thats for shure, my old gigabyte 9800gtx+ 1024ddr2 still works at 100% with +200 fps in black ops , even had few lighting strikes over my house and all pc is  working at 100% except the RTL 8201CL chip and I had to buy a wifi adaptor, but all my friends mobos was fried during lighting strikes   

[absic]

Hi again,

pleased you have managed to fix things, even if you are not certain how you did it. That can happen quite a lot when it comes to wiring and just moving cables can fix things.

I don't use the on-board sound on my system so don't have to worry about Realtek drivers but it does seem, from what I have read, that they are not the easiest to work with.

[Dark Mantis]

It does sound as if it was a cable fault then after all. Maybe it was simply a dirty or loose connection but whatever the reason at least you have it working now.