Having issues using onboard sound+sound card

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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!
 
Contact manufacturer - maybe if the board detects a pci soundcard the
onboard is automatically disabled.

r.
 
I combed through the site and didnt find anything. I sent them an email with
the problem already and still no response. I'll check again.

Thanks for the response
 
Hi, Peter.

My EPoX mobo (8KDA3+) runs AC97 plus an old Sound Blaster Live! card. I
can't recall exactly how I installed both when the mobo was new last summer.
I think I disabled onboard sound, plugged in the SB, then installed WinXP.
It detected the SB and installed the drivers from the WinXP CD. Later, I
enabled the AC97 in the BIOS and then installed the AC'97 AUDIO Driver v3.57
from the CD that came with the mobo.

Now, in Control Panel | Sounds and Audio Devices, the Hardware tab lists
many devices. The Audio and Voice tabs each have boxes with drop-down menus
from which I can choose either the SB or the AC97 as default. Naturally, I
must be sure that the cables for my microphone, speakers, etc., are plugged
into the right jacks on my mobo or sound card.

Device Manager shows a dozen or so devices under Sound, video and game
controllers, including Creative SB Live! (WDM) on IRQ 17 and Realtek AC'97
Audio on IRQ 21.

I hope this helps you figure out your system.

RC
 
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