Re: How to configure multiple sound cards?


"Siegfried Heintze" <siegfried@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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When I purchased my computer aprox two years ago, the audio was built into the
mother board. Since it was a dual boot machine (windows and fedora core 4) and
Fedora core 4 was having trouble recognizing the audio, they installed a PCI audio
card.

Both linux and windows xp 2003 were using the PCI sound card for microphone and
speakers and everything was fine until recently.

For some reason the sound stopped on both linux and windows! So I swapped out the
sound card and I still had no sound until I plugged my speakers into the
motherboard resident sound "card" (what is the proper name for this -- it is not a
card anymore).

Integrated sound chip.


Windows magically started using the motherboard resident sound card without asking
me.

Now when I installed fedora core 6 it recognized two sound cards and let me choose.

However, windows xp 2003 server continues to have never prompted me and I continue
to use the motherboard resident sound. However, my microphone no longer works. I
don't know why. I suppose the problem could be that the microphone is broken. I
suspect it is fine, however.

I would like to tell windows to use the PCI sound card to see if the microphone
works with that (since I installed a new PCI sound card to replace the old one).
How do I do this? I cannot find the dialog to do this!

The problem could be that the microphone never worked on the motherboard resident
sound and that the reason the sound stopped working is that windows automagically
switched from the PCI card to the motherboard resident card without telling me.

Disable the integrated sound in the BIOS to see if it helps.
Disable the integrated sound in Device Manager > Sound Video and Game Controllers.
Make sure the PCI sound card is Enabled.



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