RE: Booting with 2 Sound Cards

From: Paul Mckenna (PaulMckenna_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/03/05 

Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 11:45:02 -0800

Hi,

You can configure both OSs to use the prefered sound card (control
panel/Sound and audio devices for XP, Control Panel/ Multimedia for 98) as
default or you could just disable the one you don't want in Control Panel/
System /Device Manager for both OSs.

Hope this helps

regards
Paul Mckenna

"Ryan" wrote:

> I have two hard drives on my system, one running Windows 98 and the other
> running Windows XP Pro. My onboard sound card works better with WinXP but my
> older Soundblaster PCI64 works better with Windows 98. Is there any way to
> boot Win98 and use the older card, and boot with XP using the onboard card?

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