No S/PDIF or Optical output

I've just installed my new MSI K8N neo2-fx mainboard and a athlon 64bit. The thing is that I can't get any output from optical or S/PDIF. This was no problem with my old asus a7n8x delux motherboard. The reason for choosing this mainboard was the nforce. I thought it would be the same as my old one.
I can't use the analog output. I got a nice amp and I need to get the sound by S/PDIF. So what do I do to enable the digital output. When i play songs in wimap i get output thru the analog contacts but not thru the S/PDIF or the Optical. I've tried the drivers i got from the motherboard disc and from realtek.com.tw but with no succes. I've tried the latest Nforce drivers but then i get the message "no mixer found".
I really need to solve this because it can't be a crappy realtek soundchip.
Need some help.

I too just installed an MSI K8N Neo2-F motherboard and get no output from my digital spdif port. I have analog sound. Here are my relevant specs:
MSI K8N Neo2-F Bios rev1.9, Latest Forceware Drivers, Latest Realtek Drivers
Athlon 64 3700+ "San Diego"
512MBx2 Crucial Ballistix DDR400 Ram
ATI Radeon 9600 Pro
Windows XP SP2
Anyone else come across this problem or a fix??
I also had to deal with the misconfigured NIC out of the box--used a CD bootdisk and flashed the bios with the /nvmac option. This has taken up several hours of my time and I'm beginning to wonder if I am naive to expect all of the features of a board to work out of the box or have things changed since the last time I built a system...

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