Thank you for your suggestion, Robert. Of course the on-board audio
was already enabled. Otherwise the driver wouldn't have run & I
wouldn't have seen anything from the audio meters when I ran the audio
hardware testing.
Anyway I finally managed to get it resolved. I emailed Tyan tech
support right after posting this thread. Its automated response sent
me the latest FAQ specific to my motherboard. Fortunately my question
had been addressed before. To quickly summarize, the bad quality of
the manual is to blame. In particular the pin assignments. There're
quite a number of connectors & jumpers that are only described in
brief without detail pin assignments. For those with pin assignments,
there're quite a few with errors or even meaningless names. Luckily
they're only related to non-critical led connections. I only realized
this after reading the whole FAQ.
Back to the audio jack problem. It's actually due to a group of
jumpers that are marked "reserved" in the manual. Since they're
reserved jumpers, no further description was given in the manual.
According to the FAQ, two of them should be in close position. But
they were opened in both my motherboards... An supplement image of pin
assignments of those jumpers was given along with the FAQ. But
ironically, the position of one of the jumpers showing in the image is
incorrect. Fortunately I got it working at last.
"R. J. Salvi" <rjsalvi.RemoveThis@nospamambianceacoustics.com> wrote in message news:<vQWQd.11975$xX3.3390@twister.socal.rr.com>...
> Do you have the on-board audio enabled in the BIOS?
>
> You might also check to make sure the speaker plug is fully seated in the
> line-out socket. Sometimes those sockets can be a bit tight giving one a
> false sense of security regarding the mechanical connection between plug and
> socket.
> --
> Robert J. Salvi, Ambiance Acoustics
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