AMD Duron 1.1 ghz system with SiS chipset....

Dyre Straits · Jun 25, 2002, 08:58 AM

My daughter and son-in-law bought this system on Sat. It has a BIOS of 12/11/01, so it's not too old in that department.

OS = Windows 98SE
RAM = 256 shared with video.

What they also did was buy a DVD ROM drive. I installed this and am having trouble getting DVD sound to come through. I moved the audio cable from the CD RW that came with the system over to the DVD drive.
(I installed PowerDVD 4.0 and also let one of the DVDs install the PCFriendly software. Neither of them will produce sound during movie playing.) Volume is at 100%, too.

I went into Control Panel, Multimedia and the Devices and made sure that CDs played from drive E -- the DVD ROM drive designated letter.

Music CD's play just fine. However, it fails during the DXDIAG Sound tests. There's no sound whatsoever coming through during the sound tests or the Music test. I've installed the latest DirectX 8.1 and the DXMedia files.

The onboard sound is SiS 630/730 and the onboard video is SiS 7012.

If anyone has some ideas, I'd love to hear them.

Dyre Straits

Greebo_x · Jun 25, 2002, 03:39 PM

You probably need newer audio drivers for the SiS Chipset.
You can download them from the SiS website; the latest are usually at http://www.sis.com.tw but it may be very slow, depending on where you are.

You give a date but not a manufacturer for the Bios; if it says it is an AMI Bios during boot, you can download a free utility from http://www.amibios.com (equivalent to http://www.americanmegatrends.com) which will decode the manufacturer code in the Bios and tell you who put the MoBo together. Most other boards with those chipsets will use the Award Bios; I believe there is a comparable utility for it but am not sure.

If it happens that your board was made by PCChips, try this BBS for excellent help:

http://www.stud.fernuni-hagen.de/q39...i?action=intro

It is a good source of links for downloading, and has an excellent FAQ page for the M810 board, which is a very popular (i.e. CHEAP) board using the SiS730s chipset. Especially important- if you DO have a PCChips board, check out the FAQ for how to get UDMA working on the built-in IDE channels, as it is NOT trivial, and requires you to have ACPI Power Management enabled in the Bios. (This is true for ANY SiS based board for which the manufacturer does NOT supply their own IDE driver but instead relies on the Microsoft default IDE driver.)

Good luck!

Dyre Straits · Jun 25, 2002, 04:45 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Greebo_x
You probably need newer audio drivers for the SiS Chipset.
You can download them from the SiS website; the latest are usually at http://www.sis.com.tw but it may be very slow, depending on where you are.

You give a date but not a manufacturer for the Bios; if it says it is an AMI Bios during boot, you can download a free utility from http://www.amibios.com (equivalent to http://www.americanmegatrends.com) which will decode the manufacturer code in the Bios and tell you who put the MoBo together. Most other boards with those chipsets will use the Award Bios; I believe there is a comparable utility for it but am not sure.

If it happens that your board was made by PCChips, try this BBS for excellent help:

http://www.stud.fernuni-hagen.de/q39...i?action=intro

It is a good source of links for downloading, and has an excellent FAQ page for the M810 board, which is a very popular (i.e. CHEAP) board using the SiS730s chipset. Especially important- if you DO have a PCChips board, check out the FAQ for how to get UDMA working on the built-in IDE channels, as it is NOT trivial, and requires you to have ACPI Power Management enabled in the Bios. (This is true for ANY SiS based board for which the manufacturer does NOT supply their own IDE driver but instead relies on the Microsoft default IDE driver.)

Good luck!

Thank you for the excellent reply!

I did not mention the manufacturer because I could not recall exactly what it was saying when it first booted up. I'm also not at that computer so I can't readily get the info.

However, I have downloaded the sound and video drivers for the SiS audio and video.

I was surprised when they got it home and found that it still had DirectX 6 on it! The computer was supposedly new. It seems to be working in every other way just fine.

Dyre Straits

DallasStar · Jun 25, 2002, 04:46 PM

You might, rather than checking your drivers etc, try checking the settings for the dvd player you are using.

Dyre Straits · Jun 25, 2002, 05:57 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by dallasstar
You might, rather than checking your drivers etc, try checking the settings for the dvd player you are using.

Been there....all the way through and back. Made sure the correct audio device was being used...that the speakers were properly selected, etc.

Dyre Straits

Jun 25, 2002, 03:39 PM	#2
Greebo_x Keeper of Obscure Knowledge Join Date: May 2002 Location: Palo Alto, CA Posts: 91 Rep Power: 0	Who made the MoBo? You probably need newer audio drivers for the SiS Chipset. You can download them from the SiS website; the latest are usually at http://www.sis.com.tw but it may be very slow, depending on where you are. You give a date but not a manufacturer for the Bios; if it says it is an AMI Bios during boot, you can download a free utility from http://www.amibios.com (equivalent to http://www.americanmegatrends.com) which will decode the manufacturer code in the Bios and tell you who put the MoBo together. Most other boards with those chipsets will use the Award Bios; I believe there is a comparable utility for it but am not sure. If it happens that your board was made by PCChips, try this BBS for excellent help: http://www.stud.fernuni-hagen.de/q39...i?action=intro It is a good source of links for downloading, and has an excellent FAQ page for the M810 board, which is a very popular (i.e. CHEAP) board using the SiS730s chipset. Especially important- if you DO have a PCChips board, check out the FAQ for how to get UDMA working on the built-in IDE channels, as it is NOT trivial, and requires you to have ACPI Power Management enabled in the Bios. (This is true for ANY SiS based board for which the manufacturer does NOT supply their own IDE driver but instead relies on the Microsoft default IDE driver.) Good luck! __________________ ============================= Athlon XP1700+ CPU SiS730s based PCChips M810lmr v7.0a MoBo ATI All-In-Wonder 8500dv Win2kPro

Jun 25, 2002, 04:46 PM	#4
DallasStar Junior Join Date: May 2002 Location: Wave Existence Posts: 2,065 Rep Power: 0	You might, rather than checking your drivers etc, try checking the settings for the dvd player you are using. __________________ "A picture of my existence... would show a useless wooden stake covered in snow... stuck loosely at a slant in the ground in a ploughed field on the edge of a vast open plain on a dark winter night." --- Franz Kafka