Having issues using onboard sound+sound card

From: PeterB (PeterB_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/03/04


Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 08:45:03 -0800

I have been using onboard sound (AC97) for a few months without a problem.
Yesterday, I picked up a sound card and installed it, wanting to have both
the onboard and the sound card work at the same time. I'm currently doing
this type of thing on another PC I have.

However, when I install the PCI card, my onboard sound is no longer
accessible, even though its still listed as Enabled in the BIOS. When I
remove/uninstall the PCI card, the onboard shows up again and works again.

It seems that I can only have 1 sound source on my PC! However, I have both
of them setup fine on my other PC.

Both PCs are running WinXP Pro with SP2 and all major updates done.
The PC with the problem is:
AMD Athlon64
1024 PC3200 ram
Asus K8VSE Delux motherboard
the new PCI card being installed is a C-Media card, very basic.

I have searched all over and cannot find a way to get it to work. Is there
some sort of flag/setting I need to do to allow me to use two sound sources
at once??

Many many thanks!



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