okay so last night i installed my new motherboard and ended up having to reinstall windows no biggie got everything to boot up i am inpressed witht he speed i installed all my drivers from the cd that came with my morther board but it seems that the only thing that works sound wise is windows media player? none of my windows sounds work the sound card is builted in to the board it is a Nvidia[r] nForce[TM} audio i am at a lost i have reinstalled the drivers set the card as default sound card (its the only one) and am at a lost to fix it any help thanks in advance

please provide motherboard model number. i can't tell you a damn thing unless you tell me what you got first :D

this is the most common thing that people leave out when asking for help :)

its a dfi lanpartyUT nf3 250gb http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813136147

So, can you give me a list of things you've tested the sound with - when are you getting sound and when do you not?

i went into the sounds and tried to playt all of them they act like they play but i don't hear them only time i have sound is when i am using windows media player i got get sounds of my install messager programs or anything but windows media player

okay i been fooling around with it and got it to work only thing is it sounds like an eugo (quite also) but windows media player sounds fine

I wish I could sit in front of it - some of the sound software that comes with your computer can be confusing - some will have an "effects" section or whatever so you can turn on diff't effects. It's almost sounding like that's what's up with yours.

okay i got someone coming over to help i'll keep you posted

I could be wrong here but i have 2 computers with both asus motherboards in them and the cds they send dont come with the most up to date drivers with the package as they cant keep up i guess.

If it were me id try to see if thats your problem go to dfi's site and see if the drivers have been updated since the release of that cd they sent you.

Hope this helps

found out what it was after my many hours of installing uninstaling drivers and messing with settings my buddy who builds computers came over spent 2 mins with it and well turns out the speakers where pluged into the wrong ports

That was the next question i was going to ask - but the thing that didn't make sense was the thing working in WMP. you should be plugged into the green jack or the black one (depends, but those are universally "line out". I didn't want to insult you by asking what you were plugged into :(