Two sounds card at the same time

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MarcusB

Hi,
I had problem with my sound card on Asus mainboard and I decided to put
extra sound card. Sound on my MOBO was okay, but microfon was not working.
Now I have new card which is working okay. But I would like that sound
is comming from both card. In control panel I can only choose one. Is
there any possibility to use two cards at the same time.

Marcus
 
Not simultaneously - However, you can use the Sounds applet
in Control Panel to switch between the hardware. Selection is
done from the Audio (TAB).
 
Can I make swith in real time. I want to have sound to speakers and
when somebody is ringing me I would like fast switch to Headphones.

Marcus
 
Windows was never designed to have two sound card. Look at getting a
"switch" where you can change between speakers and headphone to the press of
a button. Plantonics has/had such a device but I also found several model
more affordable elsewhere.
 
Windows was never designed to have two sound card. Look at getting a
"switch" where you can change between speakers and headphone to the press of
a button. Plantonics has/had such a device but I also found several model
more affordable elsewhere.
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Try a 5.1 soundcard (Creative Audigy are OK) - set up as quadrophonic (4
speakers) assign Front L/R to main speakers and Rear L/R to monitors.
 
Yves said:
Windows was never designed to have two sound card. Look at getting a
"switch" where you can change between speakers and headphone to the press of
a button. Plantonics has/had such a device but I also found several model
more affordable elsewhere.
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You're full of baloney. I've run dual souncards in Windows 98, 2K and XP
with no problems ever.

Steve
 
Steve N. said:
You're full of baloney. I've run dual souncards in Windows 98, 2K and XP
with no problems ever.

Steve
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Me too.

Doing it right now, as a matter of fact.

It can be hard IF both of them are the same type,
unless the driver was written to allow multiple instances
of itself to be active, but running two different ones
has never been a problem here.
 
V Green said:
Me too.

Doing it right now, as a matter of fact.

It can be hard IF both of them are the same type,
unless the driver was written to allow multiple instances
of itself to be active, but running two different ones
has never been a problem here.
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V Green said:
Me too.

Doing it right now, as a matter of fact.

It can be hard IF both of them are the same type,
unless the driver was written to allow multiple instances
of itself to be active, but running two different ones
has never been a problem here.




Apologies for the last null post. I have the sam issues as Marcus, in my cas a standard Dell computer. I want to be able to listen to sound using the PC sound card but I also have a VOIP USB phone that also contains a sound card. I want to listen to sound on my PC as normal but also send/receive VOIP calls with the USB phone. Not all clear from the community how to do this. The USB phone sets its own sound card as the default card. I know you can use the control panel applet to change devices but it is slow process. Is there some way, for example, of putting 2 icons or a macro on the desk top so I could rapidly switch between sound set ups. Is there another news group that could help?
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