Motherboard audio is quiet

williamn6133 · Post by **williamn6133** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 7:01 pm

Is it normal for a motherboard to produce.. err... quiet audio?

I had an Asus P5VD2MX, I now have a Gigabyte P35-DS3P and the audio is incredibly quiet compared to how is was before. Even with wave and system volume on full it is quiet. I have installed the motherboard and audio driver.

Any ideas? :/

tehfire · Post by **tehfire** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 8:42 pm

That is quite odd...whenever there has been a huge volume change with my computer it usually is because I didn't plug the speakers in all the way. Just a suggestion...

But usually no, the signal strength coming out of motherboard audio systems is usually pretty consistent. The quality of this signal, however, varies greatly.

williamn6133 · Post by **williamn6133** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 9:07 pm

And another thing: My Samsung IDE drive is no longer sending temperature read outs to any software.

My Maxtor SATA drive is still reporting its temperature correctly.

slimeballzz · Post by **slimeballzz** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 11:41 pm

I used to have quiet audio as well.

I solved the issue by using AC3 Filter (http://ac3filter.net/project/1/releases) and all I did was open up "AC3Filter Config" menu and changed the "Preset" to "Loud".

williamn6133 · Post by **williamn6133** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:03 am

Thanks.

I got to this screen. Now I.... ?

EDIT: I did it as you suggest but didn't seem to fix the problem.

slimeballzz · Post by **slimeballzz** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 2:17 am

williamn6133 wrote:Thanks.

I got to this screen. Now I.... ?

EDIT: I did it as you suggest but didn't seem to fix the problem.

Did you click "Apply" after selecting the Preset "Loud"? Looking at your screenshot it looks like the default settings.

djkest · Post by **djkest** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 10:19 am

Did you perhaps plug into the line-out instead of the speaker out? Sounds silly, but that is the way some of them are configured.