Hello, I'm having trouble with a new Asrock K7S41 board. Sounds that normally only come out the case speaker are also playing through the system speakers. This includes the modem during dial-up and the POST beep during boot. This wouldn't be a problem except the volume is LOUD. Much louder than any system sound or music play-back. I've emailed Asrock a few times now with no response. I looked in the Control Panel, Device Manager, BIOS set-up and the drivers folder and can't find anything relevant. Has anyone heard of this before or know how to change it. Thanks.

I've never seen anything like this before, so this is a guess and ONLY a guess: Go into the BIOS, and look for any setting that may have the word "speaker" in it. If you don't find anything, then you might try swapping the sound card from another machine if you have one -- unless the sound card is integrated? If God has to teach someone a lesson more than once to get them to learn it, it just goes to show how stubborn they are.

Yeah, I'm using the integrated audio and video. It's just a cheap-build for a disabled friend. I went through the BIOS pretty thoroughly, and followed every sub-page and sub-sub-page I could find. The only audio setting is for AC'97 Enabled or Disabled. I forgot two things though. The C-Media box in the Control Panel has a lot more mixer sliders than Windows including one titled WAVE which is just for .wav files. If I move this during dial-up it controls the modem volume, but if I leave it down then other wav sounds are still 1/3 to 1/2 the volume. The second thing is that I did find a driver called something like modem_wav_drive but renaming or moving it and then rebooting did nothing. I don't know if something is wrong with this board or if this is supposed to be a "feature".

If you go to the audio settings and click on options, you may be able to select the volume control for your modem through the sound card. If it is not there, there is also a volume control in the modem properties. Rule #1: Good Computers don't go down. Rule #2: There is no such thing as a good computer.

If the posting beeps are coming throught the speakers then it must not be a software configuration. If you're sure it's not in cmos/bios setup, open the case and have a look around. There should be 3 audio inputs on the motherboard--cdrom, TAD (from the modem) and AUX. They'll all have the same 4-wire socket. The only that may need to be connected is the one from the cdrom, and that's only if you only use the default windows cdplayer to play audio cds. If any of the others are connected, disconnect them and see what happens.

I agree with DAVEINCAPS. That's why I suggested looking in the BIOS. Keep us posted what happens. If God has to teach someone a lesson more than once to get them to learn it, it just goes to show how stubborn they are.

DAVEINCAPS, I know those connectors but never use them in the systems I build. The optical drives I've used and later versions of Media Player have never needed them. Interesting though, I've always seen all three you mention but this board only has CD and AUX. Like maybe TAD is hardwired? I tried a PCI modem. Same thing. I disabled AC'97 in the BIOS and installed my Sound Blaster. Same thing except the volume levels were switched. The sound of the modem was 1/3 to 1/2 the volume of the system sounds. I'm burnt on integrated components after this. It's just not worth the hassle even if the performance of seperate cards is not needed. Unless I hear from Asrock I guess this is how it is. Thanks all.