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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with AMD processors => Topic started by: rscott521 on July 24, 2012, 03:40:43 am

Title: 970A-UD3 audio
Post by: rscott521 on July 24, 2012, 03:40:43 am
Greetings!  I just swapped this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157226  (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157226)for this motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128519 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128519)  in my 5yr. old sons pc. So far it performs well with the Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition. Taking it up to 3.8GHz with the G.SKILL 4GB DDR3 1600 memory. This is for my 5 yr. old who plays several train sim games on it.  It has WXP~32 and I didn't reinstall the OS, just installed the new Mobo drivers.

The only issue is I cant get the HD audio (Realtek) to be recognized.  I tried several times to install the audio driver from disc and from the Gigabyte site but it just wont work. Not too much if a big deal since my son uses the PLANTRONICS .Audio 655 USB head set. Anyway I just got W7~64 in the mail today so a new OS install is in it's future.
http://www.imageno.com/1yjpz0evbd7ipic.html (http://www.imageno.com/1yjpz0evbd7ipic.html)
Title: Re: 970A-UD3 audio
Post by: autotech on July 29, 2012, 01:00:01 pm
Windows 7 will install your audio drivers automatically or you can update them from site.
Title: Re: 970A-UD3 audio
Post by: rscott521 on July 29, 2012, 05:00:10 pm
Oh wow! I had totally forgotten about this thread. I just got my order of W7~64 in the mail last week from Newegg and installed last night. I didnt even have to run the motherboard driver cd. W7 installed the driver on its on and now the onboard audio is working fine. The only thing I can see that caused it not to work in WXP~32 is that it was not a clean/freash install of WXP.
Title: Re: 970A-UD3 audio
Post by: autotech on July 30, 2012, 03:06:27 am
Glad you got it working, driver conflicts can cause alot of problems sometimes a clean install is the only way to go. That is a feature of windows 7 i like no more motherboard disk...lol