Arkan Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 I've got onboard sound, but I installed a sound card (better quality) over top of it. However, the one I installed seems to have given up the ghost. How to I enable the other one? Is it just a simple matter of uninstalling the drivers, removing the card, and letting windows use its drivers for the onboard card? What els would I need to do? "Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger." - Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials "I have also been slowly coming to the realisation that knowledge and happiness are not necessarily coincident, and quite often mutually exclusive" - meta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diamond Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 Control Panel -> Sound -> Hardware and choose the default device. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pidesco Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 You need to enable onboard sound in the BIOS. "My hovercraft is full of eels!" - Hungarian touristI am Dan Quayle of the Romans.I want to tattoo a map of the Netherlands on my nether lands.Heja Sverige!!Everyone should cuffawkle more.The wrench is your friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diamond Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 You shouldn't need to unless you disabled it in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pidesco Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 He had to disable it for the regular sound card to work. "My hovercraft is full of eels!" - Hungarian touristI am Dan Quayle of the Romans.I want to tattoo a map of the Netherlands on my nether lands.Heja Sverige!!Everyone should cuffawkle more.The wrench is your friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diamond Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 (edited) "I installed a sound card (better quality) over top of it" Has he? I can't get it from the post. Anyway, I have 2 soundcards installed right now and I can switch between the two without rebooting. Edited February 7, 2007 by Diamond Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkan Posted February 7, 2007 Author Share Posted February 7, 2007 Thanks guys. I'll give it a try after class. "Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger." - Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials "I have also been slowly coming to the realisation that knowledge and happiness are not necessarily coincident, and quite often mutually exclusive" - meta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diamond Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 Aren't you posting from your shiny new PDA by chance? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pidesco Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 "I installed a sound card (better quality) over top of it" Has he? I can't get it from the post. Anyway, I have 2 soundcards installed right now and I can switch between the two without rebooting. Really? Goes to show what I know. :confused: "My hovercraft is full of eels!" - Hungarian touristI am Dan Quayle of the Romans.I want to tattoo a map of the Netherlands on my nether lands.Heja Sverige!!Everyone should cuffawkle more.The wrench is your friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkan Posted February 7, 2007 Author Share Posted February 7, 2007 Aren't you posting from your shiny new PDA by chance? Hehe, that's another thing all together. My university's VPN client doesn't support PDA functionality, so I'm trying my best to find a workaround, but so far I haven't been able to find anything. So I need to get my own wireless router back from my mother at least. "Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger." - Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials "I have also been slowly coming to the realisation that knowledge and happiness are not necessarily coincident, and quite often mutually exclusive" - meta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkan Posted February 8, 2007 Author Share Posted February 8, 2007 Worked...good to go. "Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger." - Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials "I have also been slowly coming to the realisation that knowledge and happiness are not necessarily coincident, and quite often mutually exclusive" - meta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sand Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 (edited) You should get a Sound Blaster Xi Fi Gamer. It is muy bien! :D Edited February 8, 2007 by Sand Murphy's Law of Computer Gaming: The listed minimum specifications written on the box by the publisher are not the minimum specifications of the game set by the developer. @\NightandtheShape/@ - "Because you're a bizzare strange deranged human?" Walsingham- "Sand - always rushing around, stirring up apathy." Joseph Bulock - "Another headache, courtesy of Sand" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metadigital Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 "I installed a sound card (better quality) over top of it" Has he? I can't get it from the post. Anyway, I have 2 soundcards installed right now and I can switch between the two without rebooting. Ah, but do you have an onboard sound chip, too? Motherboard default and all that ... OBSCVRVM PER OBSCVRIVS ET IGNOTVM PER IGNOTIVS OPVS ARTIFICEM PROBAT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkan Posted February 11, 2007 Author Share Posted February 11, 2007 Aren't you posting from your shiny new PDA by chance? Just thought I would reply to thid with an affirmative. "Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger." - Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials "I have also been slowly coming to the realisation that knowledge and happiness are not necessarily coincident, and quite often mutually exclusive" - meta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diamond Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 "I installed a sound card (better quality) over top of it" Has he? I can't get it from the post. Anyway, I have 2 soundcards installed right now and I can switch between the two without rebooting. Ah, but do you have an onboard sound chip, too? Motherboard default and all that ... One of them is on-board, yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metadigital Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 Well, it's good to hear that it isn't a blanket issue; still, the first thing to check is the BIOS setting. OBSCVRVM PER OBSCVRIVS ET IGNOTVM PER IGNOTIVS OPVS ARTIFICEM PROBAT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taks Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 interestingly, the most stable piece of equipment in any of my boxes, to date, has been my sound card. i recently switched from an old SB-Live! Value, to an audigy. i had the previous sound card for, well, since they first came out. in order of stability (worst to best), here's been my list: 1) motherboard - particularly, the IDE controllers seem to crap out. my wife's mobo is also having PCI issues, manifesting on the AGP slot. her mobo is also having clock-locking issues, and it's under 4 years old. i just ordered a new mobo for my son's vaio, too, as it refused to recognize anything on the IDE channels. 2) hard drives - the early 7200s were awful, and prior to that i could never get a drive to last more than a few years. i'm hoping the newer SATAs perform better. i've bought as many HDDs as mobos over the years. HDDs are typically cheaper, so i rate them a bit better (bang for the buck i guess). 3) video cards - 3 years tops on every card i've ever owned. 4) power supplies - i've had a few die for no reason. 5) CPUs - usually when one of my CPUs dies, it is my fault (powering up w/out a heat-sink results in a very high-pitched squeal, and insta-death, btw). 6) miscellaneous 7) speakers - my original creative speakers died after 6 or 7 years. moved on to logitech. sound card - i've owned two now, in the last 11 years that i can remember. taks comrade taks... just because. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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