ASUS A8N SLI DELUXE, REALTEK SOUND ISSUES.

[mi0sis]

Hey. I am using the Asus A8N SLI DELUXE mobo with the on board Realtek AC'97 sound. I also have a M-Audio Delta 1010 sound card.

My question is does anyone else here have microphone issues with this board? I can't get any microphones to work, but they work on my old PC. I tried to disable the onboard sound, but the mics still don't work.

The problem is with two mics. First the Plantronics DSP 500 USB headset. I can plug them in and use them for about 5 minutes before getting this nasty static and interference in the earphones. After that starts about a minute later any sound at all cuts out. I can unplug the headset to get rid of the interference in the earphones, but the sound doesn't come back. I have to restart the CD/GAME/DVD.

The second mic is a regular microphone that gets plugged in to the jack on the motherboard. When I try to set this one up I get a similar issue. No response from the microphone and the same type of interference in the earphones.

I have no clue what is causing this or how to go about fixing it. I just built this PC two days ago and have had sound issues from the begining.

When I set the M-Audio Delta 1010 as my primary device and disbale the AC'97 onboard I still get the interference issue with the Plantronics USB headset. So I'm not sure if it's the onboard or not. I can't test the other microphone because the Delta 1010 only has stereo inputs. The microphone is the standard 1/8 in jack.

Any help on this issue would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

P.S. When I move the mouse or click, it seems to make the interference in the USB headset worse.

 

[mi0sis]

Well it looks like I got the regular microphone to work, but the headset is still getting static and cuttingo ut. Bollocks. This is the last issue I have to resolve on this build. Not bad for my first.

 

[sxr7171]

Your headset issues are completely different from your microphone issue (which you seemed to have fixed). I don't think the sound card has anything to do with a USB headset as the headset takes a digital signal from your computer and does D/A conversion in the headset. Get the latest drivers/software for the headset or get that headset exchanged if that doesn't solve your problem.

 

[mikepro]

What did you do for your microphone? I recently started having trouble with my microphone on this board while using Roger Wilco.

 

[mi0sis]

The problem with my mic was I wasn't assigning the proper device to handle recorded sound in the device manager. At least that was I did to get it to work. It could have been something else. I haven't tried the microphone yet on a game or communication program. I only tested it in sound recorder to see it would work, and it did. So I may not have solved the problem 100%.

Thanks for the information to the reply before that. I have the latest "firmware" as they like to call it. I guess maybe I'll have to send for a new headset, but I don't think they are broke. They worked perfectly fine on my old SONY Vaio.