audio cut when cases changed

jonnyp11

jonnyp11

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i'm working on a build and for now i just moved an old compaq presario into the case i got since it was on sale and was nice, apex vortex 3620, but once i moved my mobo and everything to the new case, the only noise is the fans and when the in-case speaker beeps, before i moved it there were 1 or 2 open spots in front of the audio jacks, but my new case has audio jacks in the front so i plugged that cable in and the other was the case speake but idk if it had something in that but i don't think so, and i believe 1 of them had these little blue covers that look like they link the 2 pins it covers and it covered all 4 i think but it was a while ago, this was all on a via chipset and like i said it's from compaq so it has crap bios, but i have looked all in them and windows and my monitor and everything and i can't figure out the problem, but this was my first time even touching the motherboard or anything and i'm 14 so i think other than that i did pretty good considering i had no knowledge of anything i was doing at the time and just figuring it out as i went, ask anything you want and i'll try to respond

thanks,
Jonathan
 
Your posting was one long sentence, so let me see if I can understand what you're saying here. You've plugged in your computer speakers to an audio jack on the front of your case, right? Do you have audio ports on your motherboard that you can try the speakers on?

Visualize to yourself the entire route that the audio signals have to take to go to your speakers (from the motherboard, or even consider the audio drivers, all the way to your speakers). Verify that all of those points along the way are functioning.
 
sorry about that, but i'm using my tv as the monitor with a double male audio cord, something like that, so i know the speakers work from watching tv, but not with the computer. then i have the cord plugged into the motherboard's jack, not the one on the case which i have tried that one too. but it all started when i put it in a different case so idk what could have happened while moving it.
 
hmmm... I'm out of ideas, unfortunately. shouldn't have to worry about any wires on the motherboard since you've got it plugged into your motherboard jack. a simple case swap shouldn't have affected the onboard audio jack but somehow I guess it has. have you tried hooking up headphones to it and seeing if you could get sound?
 
yep and nada, it's like the audio bios just dissapeared, i have tried removing the things i plugged into the board and putting those weird little covers on the pins and still nothing, i never did this cuz i really doubt it would or could be this, but my new case has an extra fan that i plugged into an open plug that was just in a random spot, could that have done anything, and i doubt it would anyways but i know its got enought power to run it all since with the gpu which is a radeon 9600se from ~'05 and everything it ran on the 250w that it came with and i recently put in a rosewill rv-2 500w so power can't be a factor.
 
You're using the front audio panel right? The case will come with an audio header for the front panel, as all do. If it's not plugged in, you get no audio from the front. If you have a sound card, it gets plugged into that.
 
no, i did plug it into the front jack, but after the audio stopped, and since it wasn't working there either then i moved it back to the motherboard's audio jack. i just wish i could afford my build so i wouldn't need this
 
well i looked in control panel and tried to put the audio icon in my task tray and it says i am missing the volume control program, which i think i randomly deleted a while back but it didn't do anything but i don't really remember, but i can't find it in the add/remove programs thing so any suggestions

edit: added accessories and utilities from add/remove windows components, but also in another option said missing sndvol32.exe if someone can post cuz i don't want virusses

and got both files and still nothing, and plugge headphones i've been using on other computer in both and still nothing
 
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Do you have a dedicated sound card or just onboard? If you have a soundcard, and want to use that, plug the front audio header into the soundcard, if you plug it into the motherboard it will use the onboard audio. And if you've disabled the onboard audio, you will get no audio from the front ports. You need to plug the front panel sound header into the sound card.
 
nope no sound card, i just wish i could get my build back on so i wouldn't have to deal with this stuff in the first place
 
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