I put together my system a few days ago and everything went together smoothly, which was nice since this is my first build. The specs are below. It's a pretty simple setup for now, but will probably add to it later. Half-Life 2 is now actually fun to play as it was pretty hard to play on my old system with only 20 to 30 fps at best and less than 10 when there was action. Frame rates now range from the 50's in heavy action up to peaks around 300 in some indoor areas with no action. Now to my questions.
I noticed that my speaker audio is kind of low----lower than any computer I've every owned. With the speakers (right and left) are connected to either the rear (lime colored - "line out") jack or to the front panel headphone jack, the volume just isn't loud enough. I suspect I connected something wrong, but I'm not quite sure. I've played around with the audio controls in Windows and updated the Realtek AC'97 drivers to no avail. I did remove some jumpers from the Front Panel Audio connector when hooking up the front panel. I had a choice to use separate connectors or one large single connector. In order to use the large connector I had to remove the jumpers and I suspect that this is what is causing the low audio output. I can open up the case and re-connect the jumpers and use the single connectors, but it's so tight in there that I don't want to spend the time if it isn't going to help. Anyone know if this will fix it before I open her back up?
The other question I have is about the ASUS PC Probe utility. The reading for chassis fan is 0. It's probably a simple connection issue, but I'm not quiet sure how to correct it. Input from which pins on the motherboard are displayed in the "Chassis Fan" reading in the PC Probe utility?
The fan is a 120mm in the rear of the Sonata case. It is connected to the power supply via a regular 12v connector, not to the fan only connector. The fan only connector with this power supply allows the fan speed to be controled by the power supply temp. I connected a small connector (I think it was "psu fan mon" or something like that) from the power supply to the motherboard CHA1_fan pins. I've also tried connecting it to the PWR_FAN pins with no change in the PC Probe reading of 0. Connecting the power to the fan via the FAN ONLY connection to the power supply doesn't help either. I'm guessing that this setup just won't work with the Sonata power supply. I noticed that the PSU FAN MON off the power supply has only two wires, not three, so the missing one probably is used to monitor the rotation speed. I admit that I'm a noob at computer building, but I would think that in order to monitor the fan speed, the motherboard would need some input from the fan itself. There are only two wires from the fan and they go to the power supply.
If anyone can help me out with these issues, I'd really appreciate it.
I noticed that my speaker audio is kind of low----lower than any computer I've every owned. With the speakers (right and left) are connected to either the rear (lime colored - "line out") jack or to the front panel headphone jack, the volume just isn't loud enough. I suspect I connected something wrong, but I'm not quite sure. I've played around with the audio controls in Windows and updated the Realtek AC'97 drivers to no avail. I did remove some jumpers from the Front Panel Audio connector when hooking up the front panel. I had a choice to use separate connectors or one large single connector. In order to use the large connector I had to remove the jumpers and I suspect that this is what is causing the low audio output. I can open up the case and re-connect the jumpers and use the single connectors, but it's so tight in there that I don't want to spend the time if it isn't going to help. Anyone know if this will fix it before I open her back up?
The other question I have is about the ASUS PC Probe utility. The reading for chassis fan is 0. It's probably a simple connection issue, but I'm not quiet sure how to correct it. Input from which pins on the motherboard are displayed in the "Chassis Fan" reading in the PC Probe utility?
The fan is a 120mm in the rear of the Sonata case. It is connected to the power supply via a regular 12v connector, not to the fan only connector. The fan only connector with this power supply allows the fan speed to be controled by the power supply temp. I connected a small connector (I think it was "psu fan mon" or something like that) from the power supply to the motherboard CHA1_fan pins. I've also tried connecting it to the PWR_FAN pins with no change in the PC Probe reading of 0. Connecting the power to the fan via the FAN ONLY connection to the power supply doesn't help either. I'm guessing that this setup just won't work with the Sonata power supply. I noticed that the PSU FAN MON off the power supply has only two wires, not three, so the missing one probably is used to monitor the rotation speed. I admit that I'm a noob at computer building, but I would think that in order to monitor the fan speed, the motherboard would need some input from the fan itself. There are only two wires from the fan and they go to the power supply.
If anyone can help me out with these issues, I'd really appreciate it.