help needed.... i have Intel 845G motherboard with windows XP professional SP2 and onboard ac97 audio. i have successfully installed realtek ac 97 driver for onboard sound but very low sound is coming from my speakers. I did everything to figure-out problem but all in vain. Could any body plz help me how can i solve this problem.

The first thing that comes to mind- however trivial, are they powered speakers? Underpowered speakers never work that well... There is also an equalizer within XP- make sure that is up. Are you sure you have the latest drivers? Did you plug the speakers into the back of the mobo or a front audio jack? Do you have any other sound card installed at this point in time? AMD Phenom X4 9850BE Gigabyte 780G 4GB Patriot DDR2 1066 Radeon 4850 Barrucuda 7200.11 500GB

i have done the following thing. 1-sound is enable in bios setting 2-window sound equalizer is set to maximum. 3-i have make sure that speaker wire is connect in the properly. but still can't hear sound.

try it with some headphones plugged into the pc instaed of the speakers. The output from the pc is not usually powerful enough to get sound from speakers and PC speakers therefore normally have an amplifier built into them. it is possible that the amplifier in the speakers has failed. I assume you do have power connected to the speakers

If none of the above seem to work. Try typing alsndmgr.cpl into a run dialogue box and have a look in there. Worth a look anyway.

yes i have try connecting headphone instead of speaker but there was not sound there. i have read in wikipedia about ac97 and window xp, which says "Microsoft has acknowledged that in one of their automatic updates they have caused the AC97 to stop working....." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC97 Then i decided to upgrade from sp2 to sp3 but still there is no sound.

How long have you been using your PC and when has the sound problem started ? Regards SuatCINI