It’s not often enough that I find a post-hardcore band I love but yesterday the moment struck at the most unexpected time. I was in Reykjavik’s Cafe Roma preparing for the trip back home from Iceland Airwaves and whilst ordering my first ever Chai Latte I heard a noise that could only be described as brutal coming from Lucky Records next door. I ran next door (alone as my travelling companions remained in the cafe too afraid of what lay next door) to find Icarus tearing the coolest record shop in Iceland a new one.
After a couple of listens Icarus’s debut from earlier this year “Ascending // Descending” I reckon Maryland is my favourite track but it’s a great opener to a great album and At Least I’m Not On Fire is another belter.
The Northeast Post Office is located in the state of Oklahoma within Tulsa County. This location serves 22,941 Tulsa residents with a median income of $32,207. It's estimated that approximately 36,616 packages pass through this post office each year.
There are 3 US Post Offices in Madison County serving a total of 13,125 residents equating to 4,375 residents per post office. It's estimated that approximately 20,949 packages are handled across the 3 county post offices annually. Madison County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, its population was 13,664. Its seat is Madisonville. The county was created in 1853 and organized the next year. It is named for James Madison, the fourth president of the United States."	
Installed a Creative Soundblaster card and it automatically disables the onboard sound and when looking on recording devices Realtek doesn't show. Can I go into the BIOS screen and re-enable onboard audio (providing it allows me to) and will the Realtek HD Audio once again appear in recording devices along with the "what you hear" option the Soundblaster sets up when installing the soundcard ? Basically, can you have both Realtek and Soundblaster show in recording devices at the same time and have the option to disable one when your not using it ?
Hi, what does the onboard audio have that your new Creative soundcard does not offer in features? Just curious of your question posted.
I've got an Asus Crosshair V Formula motherboard that I couldn't get any sound on my Onkyo HT-R550 receiver via the onboard optical output (Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit OS) I was planning on getting a nicer sound card anyway, so I bought the Asus Xonar Essence ST.
Speaker and headphone outputs work, but no signal is recognized by the receiver via the S/PDIF. I know that the cable and receiver are fine, I still have my previous computer which is running Win XP and it has been sending audio via the same cable to the same receiver for years. It still works if I hook it up. It has an Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe motherboard and an HT Omega Striker 7.1 audio card. Both the onboard and sound card optical output work with the optical out to the receiver.
With my current computer the Win 7 "Sound" window displays signal on the audio meter when I play audio or when I use the "Test" function. But no signal is recognized by the receiver. I've tried every format and sample rate. I've uninstalled all drivers and reinstalled. I've used DH Driver Cleaner to sweep out all previous existing audio drivers. I've also had the onboard disabled since I originally installed the card. I've tried everything I can think of and manipulated all the settings in the Xonar Essence ST Audio Center software that are relevant. I think I've tried everything, but I'm hoping I'm wrong. I've submitted this to Asus technical, but it's been... Read more
although the xonar panel will control almost all functions for that, make sure that windows has it's default audio device set to the spdif card you want. If it's set to speakers HD AUDIO (hd audio being one of the cards you want) will only output through analog. Control Panel>hardware and sound>sound. Select the card that you want and make sure u select one of the options that also says spdif. Click set default, apply and it should work. Sorry if you have already tried this. But it's the first thing that comes to mind right now.
I have just reformatted my hard drive and loaded everything back successfully ,even my modem with your help (see earlier query) EXCEPT for my sound system. I have a Microstar International MS-6198 motherboard with AWARD BIOS 6.00 PG. (I found that out using Belaric.com which I read about whilst searching this forum) and am running Windows 98.CD?s play using CD player but I get no sound. In -- accessories ?entertainment and then selecting Volume controls gets no response . I can not get volume controls to appear.In the BIOS ,?onboard sound? is set to auto ?only other choice is ?off?In Device Manager there is a yellow ? by PCI Multimedia Audio Device and further checks show ?No driver installed?.Do I need a driver and if so where could I get one and what would its type be.I assumed that by the term PCI in Multimedia device it is refering to a SOUND card in a PCI slot not a sound card built into the motherboard as I have. Am I wrong in my assumption- are built in sound cards still referred to as PCI ones? Would appreciate any help and explanation Thanks
The problem is that when I run the sound tests with the CMedia configuration utility all 5 of my surround sound speakers play at the correct times showing that they do work. The problem is this is the only place they work. The dont work when I play games or listen to music through various sound programs such as Windows Media Player. Here only 2 speakers work. Not all 5, some please help?
Is there and updated driver that I need to get for my onboard sound card fro Windows XP and if so from where
This started last night, the only thing that I did that was out of the ordinary was ran Avast's thourough scan fully, but even after that my sound worked, so it didnt delete the driver to my knowlege, but when I do a dxdiag and look at my audio, it doesn't exist, there is no sound card installed, and allI use is my DFI Lan Party UT RDX200 CF-DR mother boards on board sound. I tried installing the driver again fom DFI and to no success, now when I went to install the drive again, I got an error saying that this device isnt approved by Windows, could windows be preventing my audio card from working?
I decided to remove the sound card, and use the onboard SPDIF to my Pioneer 7.1 receiver via optical digital cable and I'm amazed.
If it were me and the onboard sound system is working great, then I'd stay with the onboard system. If you change your mind in the future, you can always add the external back in.
onboard sound was not working properly i.e. we could hardly hear it even when turned up full blast.Assuming it to be broke I have disabled it in bios and bought a new sound card but the problem still persists. I have checked everything and can find no problems. Can anyone advise? using XP pro, new card is working in another computer and speakers are all ok.
Hi, I fly MS FSX and I want to be able to chat to ATC with my headphones and then hear the engine noises coming out of my speakers and sub-woofer.
I have a soundcard and my motherboard has onboard sound. I can't find the bios setting to turn it on and I can't see any hint of it anywhere on the computer. Can someone help me get the on board sound going?
P.S. What you want to do will only work if the chat program you want to use allows you to choose from more than one audio device, if it doesn't then it will only use the Windows default device.
What would be the advantages/disadvantages of onboard sound vs a sound card? With a sound add on card are there headers for front panels connections.? Would I see/hear a big difference in the sound?
It would depend on what you want from the audio or what applications you have for it. I have a home built using an Intel motherboard that has IDT (SigmaTel) HD audio on it. It's fine for most of the "listening" that I do However, I have a music program that uses MIDI and the default built in Windows/Microsoft GS Wavetable MIDI Synth is pretty bad. For that reason I have a SoundBlaster Xfi installed and SoundBlaster has on board hardware MIDI synths that are much better.
is it dificult to install a new sound card if u already have onboard sound? pls could someone tell me how to do it.. i know how to fit it etc but how do u disable onboar sound?
can anyone tell me whats the advantage of having a sound card over onboard sound, assuming that the onboard sound is from a recent mobo.
Yes...It is....to a certain extent. I have always believed that integrated sound is fine. However, professionals and hardcore games must have the highest quality of sound. Your eye is much more senstive than your ears, and can detect smaller changes more accuratly.
Ok here is the short of it. I installed a sb audigy yesterday and disabled the on board sound(ac 97) in the bios. Installed driver for sb and and now i have no sound at all. The startup sounds are good and games will have sound for about 30 secs and then nothing but buzz. device manager recognizes both. how do i get it to not recognize the onboard sound and keep the sb. Do i have to uninstall drivers for onboard sound. and if so how do i do that? i am no computer literati as you can tell by the amount of noob questions. any help would be much appreciated thanks.
go to your control panel! Start->settings->control panel then go to add/remove programs. You should find the driver for your old sound chip there! remove and reboot! Let us know if that works!
I'm using an Asus A8N-SLi click here and i wanted to upgrade the sound on the PC. Nothing fancy just something to take the load off the CPU. I also have 4.1 Surround Sound Speaker which work fine.Which would be better? Sticking with the OnBoard "Realtek ALC850, 8-channel CODEC" or getting a Creative Sound Blaster Audigy SE 7.1 Sound Card click here?
In other words, if I disable them and put a "real" sound card and NIC in the PCI slots, will my CPU have less load?
Yes, the cheap ones use the CPU, however I belive in the nForce mobo's there is a chip for these periphrials (the southbridge does it, i think), so there is little extra CPU usage. This equates to having the same performance as a PCI card.
i am running a k7s5a pro mobo. finally got it up and running with no problems, *don't ever use the ECS drivers for your agp* yet now i just don't have sound. and when it does the new hardware detection i assign it to look at all the places where i have the latest and greatest drivers yet it never finds the one it's looking for. and so the audio device never comes up in the system device list. lil help if anybody else has had this problem with this mobo and what ya did to solve it.
I don't know this mainboard... does the manual mention which sound interface (or chipset) it has? If not, try to search for the sound chip in the mainboard then a search in google should help...
when i play an audio or when something coming out of the speaker (or head phone) it comes out all broken
and when im using my comp to the max then i can barely even listen to the song because it rips so much
hey, i have a video capture card that uses an audio link to input the sound into my sound card, and my sound cards clock stabillity is apparently not all that great, which causes the sound to either lag behind the video or be slightly ahead of the video. and i was wondering, would it be possible to have the line in from my capture card go into my onboard sound(which was working fine before the new card) so that i could get the synch that im looking for. step by step instructions would be great. I have a sound blaster live 24 bit and an ASUS mobo with onboard stereo sound(kt600)
Hi all,Older emachine T2385 had an onboard Realtek AC97 sound card. The pc died. Managed to save all files. a friend bought me a new T3504 with onboard Realtek ACL861 ( HD 5.1 ) I have musicmatch and DAK wave mp3 editor that I used to record streaming radio from " stero mixer " on the old pc, but on the new one. Emachines blew me off. ( T3504 is 6 wks old ) Emailed Realtek, they said the new ACL861 doesn't reconize " stero mixer " I don't need HD 5.1 All I need is 2.1 cd quality. Is this something Emachines would take care of, or maybe on me to buy a cheap PCI sound card ? If anybody has any other ideas, I'm all ears (or eyes). Thanks in advanceA 25 yr old / 64 yr old jammin in the nursing home, Lou
i assume you have checked in your bio's to activate it, if not, go in and see if onboard sound is rigged in, if it is, disable and restart, then let windows boot, restart and go into the bios and activate it again, sometimes this may be the issue, if it is not activated.... well activate it... if it still does not work ensure that you have the onboard sound DLL's installed by doing a uninstall of all audio and reinstalling everything with the MB again... it should help... if not, i would contact the makers of said machine and tell them that you are sending it back, that the on board audio does not work, and that you want a new one with a HardDrive upgrade as a sorry note...
I just ordered a computer with onboard sound. Now, what are the major differences between having an onboard or card?
I have a AOpen AC97 motherboard with a Duron 1.2 chip running Win98se. I am using the onboard sound and it has never really worked right. It routinely stutters, even when playing the windows startup sounds. Any ideas? A search through the internet suggested an IRQ issue, but I don't know how to check or change that.
I have updated the sound driver, installed DirectX 9.02(b) and run Norton Utilites on the system to clean up common errors.
I'm trying to help my brother set up a new computer basically from scratch. I've gotten nearly everything working on it, except for the sound card. It's an onboard sound card, but I haven't been able to locate any sort of manufacterer or part #s on it, and I don't see anything on the motherboard itself (I don't even know the make/model of the mb). Is there any way I can find out this information? Do I even need to know this to find a driver for the sound card? Thanks in advance for your help,
Okes, I'm having this problem with my on-board sound card. Ever since a pin on my PS-2 Mouse broke I've been having to use a USB mouse, But the problem is the USB ports on my motherboard don't work for some reason. This made me have to remove my Soundblaster PCI card so put in a USB card so I could have a working mouse. Now I have reinstalled Windows XP, my old one was a pirated program which I didn't know until about a year after I bought it off of a friend. Now, the sound card on my board says its an AC-97 ((I think I keep forgetting)), or at least that's what the bios says. I plug in my speakers into the motherboard and it says I have no audio device. but when I checked the drivers it says all of them are working. I've tried updating the drivers, uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers, I checked the bios settings and made sure the sound was enabled, it was. So now I'm at a loss of what to do. Any help would be great to fix this problem. I would love to listen to some music >.<, as well as play some games.
I'm recently working on my brother-in-law's computer that was given to him. I installed windows2000 professional...i.e. reformatting and removing all old software. Everything so far seems to run great...if you don't plan on having any sound. It appears the sound card is a SoundPro HT1869V+ on board and is not compatable with win2000 nor has drivers to install for win2000. My first question is this....can I disable the onboard sound card and install a new sound card i.e. Creative soundblaster and if so my 2nd question is how do I disable the onboard sound card? Would this be done in bios? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
try going to start/settings/control panel/add remove hardware, go throught the uninstall prompts. If you can see the sound chip there you should be able to uninstall or disable it.
Otherwise you can look in the bios for a setting to disable it, some motherboards have jumpers, you would need to check the manual for the machine. And some disable themselves when you install another sound card.
although being very computer literate my pal said today that he has a newish pc that does not have a Game port.he uses onboard sound which is fine but cannot use a joystick etc...can I put an audio card in and STILL use onboard sound?? ie. m/b for sound , card for the game port ??any help appreciated..booboo
your mates pc should have usb ports for joysticks?and you mean a video card?just load the drivers first then plug it in and be careful if you are going to do this ...the onboard sound you can leave it as it is?....if it new pc it can void the warrenty of it if you open the case ...
Just switched my desktop to windows 7 from xp pro and have a weird latency with my audio. This latency did not exist on XP, but with 7 it is there. I have been using just my motherboard soundcard (desktop for recording) with the 6 1/8" inputs ... I have my dj mixer's output to the mic input on the soundcard and the speaker output to the sound system. I have downloaded all the updated realtek audio drivers, but still have this 1/4 second latency. I have also tried running my mixer's output to the line-in opposed to the mic and get no audio recognition. Any ideas?
The line in is an unpowered line. If you have a self powered sound source, you should be able to use this port to feed sound into your computer. My best guess is to may certain that you have the correct drivers, make sure there are no device conflicts and to check to see if it is a program issue.
Hi everybody, can you please help me to my problem Why I can't install my on board sound card software. Everytime I try to install the error will always appear. It says, microsoft bus driver is not found in your system. My motherboard is Asus P5VD2-X,
More info is needed.What operating system are you using?What is the exact error you're getting?Have you installed the drivers for your motherboard?Have you checked for a newer sound driver online?
my friends computer has an on board audio sound card that we dont know the name too and the computer was reformatted. Tryin to look up model but not luck, it was built by hand. Any way we could figure this out now? or is it a bit too late. If its late, we could always just buy a sound card, but it'd be nice to just be able to get the name now. Thanks in advance for any help
Laptop or desktop? Is there an OS on it? if so you could download a program like everest which will tell you the specifics of your computer
Let's get down to business, I have a VT82C686A onboard sound card that doesn't seem to work no matter what I do, I tried installing different versions of drivers and playing around with the BIOS but, alas, nothing seems to work.
The weird thing is I install everything correctly and without problems (with Add New Hardware) but there is no sound, whatsoever... Sndvol32.exe doesn't work, meaning as there is no sound hardware or something... When I try to play a sound with the control panel / sounds I cant play any wave file because the little play triangle is grayed out...
And if I try to install the AVI drivers with the installation exe it tells me the AC97 Codec isnt enabled in the Bios, even though it is...
k here is the scoop. yesterday my sound was working PERFECTLY. I even played some music b4 i went to sleep. I left my computer on that night and when i came back to my computer the next day the sound was not working. Nothing was changed. It was exatly how i left it. I restarted my computer and to no avail. I have a k7s5a Motherboard with a 1.15 amd chip, 512 ram. I dont understand what happened here. I tried updating the sound drivers but to no avail. Could my sound card be broken? it is a onboard sound card. I know i am using the right drivers. What should I do? BTW if i turn my speakers to MAX volume, i can hear some scratching in the background.
Check-out device manager under Audio Devices and see what shows and make sure the card is 'enabled' not 'disabled'.
My sound card is hooked up to my surround sound system and every time hard bass hits there is a buzzing sound. I thought it might have been the surround sound system but I hooked it to another set of speakers and it does the same thing. It only happens when there is a lot of bass. I have RealTek HD audio output. Any info would be great.
Do you happen to have the ability to get the specs of the onboard sound card? (Also, generally, a lot of onboard sound cards are not as good as ones that you might be able to get with one that isn't integrated.) If not, what is the brand and model of the computer, and have you always had this problem? Another thing, have you ever reinstalled your operating system? You may want to try to reinstall the drivers for the sound card.
I have a GA-8S648FX motherboard with onboard sound but I cant get it to work. I had to reinstall XP and the CD I got for sound etc will not play anymore.....(thats a whole other story)....
When I have done a windows update...it has installed C-Media files and in device manager these files are showing as having a problem but the system wont find a better driver.
i have a asus P4S533 MX mother board that comes with an on board multimedia sound card. but get no sound i tried going to install drivers in the device manger but it can't find any online and i can't find any saved on my computer. when i open up control panel and click on sounds, speech, and audio devices then click on adjust the system volume, on the volume tab on sounds and audio devices properties it says no audio device. it act's as if there is no speaker connected please help!!!
Also my NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 video card lags very bad and it won't let me install the necessity drivers on it. any suggestions on how to install them?
I recently got a new MB MSI K9VGM-V and when i first tried to get going everything seemed to work fine except the sound card. I have a PCI sound card, but with only 2 PCI slots I'd like to use my onboard sound (if possible) I tried downloading and installing a driver for it (Windows XP Home didn't find it for some reason) Now I get a RTHDCPL.EXE illegal Sysytem DLL Relocation error and says
"The system DLL user32.dll was relocated in memory. The application will not run properly. The relocation occurred because the DLL C:\WINDOWS\system32\HHCTRL.OCX occupied an address range reserved for Windows system DLLs. The vendor supplying the DLL should be contacted for a new DLL."
your computer is basically saying its fighting over which one to use. you have on board and a pci card both trying to communicate with windows. you have to disable one or the other to get it to work, via device manager
I have an on-board sound card that is built on motherboard and Im getting interference noise (i think) that comes thru the speakers at about the half way point and beyond. So if I want a decent sound it sounds like crap. Will a soundblaster card or other eliminate this or no?
Yes it should eliminate this noise. I had this problem when I was putting my computer together and hadn't bought a good soundcard yet. It got annoying quick, but was easily fixed with a new card. I think you will also enjoy the new sound and clarity with a GOOD sound card.
my on board Realtek audio chip recently blew not happy that the board is only new (2 Months Old) and is there a way to see what caused it?
Could it of overheated? I am being strict on this as I wanted to get at least 10 years out of the board but not sure that's happening now
Hopefully I can find out what caused it to prevent the same happening to other chips and for some reason the audio chip does get very hot that you can only touch it for 2 seconds before it starts burning your hand now moving on I manage to find a average sound card and that seems to fix the audio issue but it still bothers me that the on board audio is stuffed on a new board.
I am trying to get at least 10 years out of the board or at least 7 so I hope this won't shorten the life span
Hoping to get some advice from the seven forums community and I do web design and you tube stuff so I cannot afford to go without a PC for more then 4 days as the site and channel is in those stages.
Also is it possible that the sound chip overheated and blew if so I may add more fans to prevent this happening in the future
If the board is just two months old, certainly you are entitled to a new one as a warranty replacement. If that were my board, that's what I'd look into.
Hi. During a recent thunder storm my sound just stopped working. The PC is protected by a surge protector and nothing seemed fried, in fact all else works. I trouble shot the sound setup and found the speakers i have still work with an IPOD plugged directly in to the woofer but the onboard sound (the green jack i plug my speaker cable into) will not output any sound. I plugged some working earphones directly in to the green jack to no avail. Is there a way of either testing further or repairing the onboard sound?
The reason I ask is that only the small PCI-Express slot is vacant and that is blocked by the video card. The only other option is to free up a larger PCI slot currently housing an IDE conversion card used to carry info from my C:\ HDD, and my DVD drives. Which then means caving in and buying new SATA DVD drives and also a SATA HDD and re-installing windows. There must be an easier way?
hi my system has onboard sound,???is there any reason why i cannot fit a seperate soundcard, and would i benifit from doing so please many thanks
Unless you have a laptop the answer is yes you can fit a sound card and disable the onboard sound in BIOS.Will you benefit? Certainly you would expect an improvement in sound but a lot depends on what sort of speakers you have got and what programs you use that involve sound.
I recently formatted my computer and am having serious trouble with the sound card and its driver. I will include the dxdiag info file with comp specs in it etc in this post to help debug this problem.
Firstly, my understanding is that i need the AC'97 audio drivers from realtek and i have tried installing the driver that i downloaded from the Realtek website, and also the driver that i downloaded from the giga-byte website and both resulted in problems such as the computer restarting about 3 minutes after loading the desktop continually (i presume when it tries to load the sound card). And also when i tried the one from the realtek website it restarted midinstallation and then tried to install it once it had rebooted. It then continued to restart as it tried to install it each time.
And under the device manager its the Multimedia Audio Controller which is affected. I have tried uninstalling the driver both from control panel and from the device manager and reinstalling and nothing has worked.
I am at a loss as for what to do and i actually remember having similar problems the last time i formatted this computer however stupidly i dont believe i kept the files that i used previously
Will games performance be better with a decicated sound card, rather than onboard?I have a PC with an ASUS P5GD1 motherboard and I am using the onboard sound. Games play fine, but will they run even better with a dedicated card?If so, does anyone have any recommendations?Thanks.
Hi, yes a Sound card would give much better audio for games. I like the Soundblaster Audigy2.Cheers.
OK well im going to install a sound blaster live and need help turning off my current onboard realtek sound card please help me thanks.
Have you looked in the BIOS? Have you looked at your motherboard manual? In some cases it can be a jumper on the motherboard.
Hi guys have upgraded/repaired my daughter-in-laws pc. all working fine except for no driver for onboard sound and usb only showing1.1 .when tryng to install drivers,message is "needs at least sp1", downloaded sp2 but when trying to install get message " expected version not found" any suggestions please.asrock k8nf6p-vstaamd cpu1gb ramm80gb hdddvd/rw driveOld xp pro retailhave tried reinstalled both as repair install and fresh install. still the same.
You could try making a "slipstreamed" version of you XP, with SP2 incorporated.I've used Autostreamer to do this, several times on different SP versions, and it's always wortked well. Some will recommend nlite - but I think autostreamer is easier to you.Autostreamer click herenlite click here
Go to the website for the manufacturer of the desktop or laptop. If that fails, the try the site for the manufacturer of the sound card. If that fails, there are sites that you can google up for free drivers. I know of one thats called drivers.com and HTH...doc
My Asus P6T MB has an Onboard Sound Card which I use. I am NOT having any problems with it, however I see on the Asus site there is an update for the Sound card on this MB. Does any body know of any possible issues of doing the update or should I leave well enough alone - I have NOT updated the Chipset, I believe the Sound Card is integrated into the Chipset (not real sure about that) - ?
Anyways, I would appreciate some thoughts on this, I don't want to mess things up by doing something foolish !!!
Most driver updates on a manufacturer's site correct problem issues, or sometimes provide greater functionality for a device then it had previously.
Whenever I see an updated driver for a device of mine I check the release note/faq that is usually provided and see what issue correction or function upgrades the update provides. If I have no problems with the device or suffered none of the issues, and have no need for any new functionality listed, I generally opt to not upgrade the driver. If it's not broken don't fix it.
Having said that, sometimes an upgraded piece of hardware might depend on your sound drivers being up to date (I had that issue with a PCI TV tuner card). Modern operating systems from XP up are pretty good about rolling back a driver change (not to mention system restore, if you use that), so should someone want to update a driver just to see if it changes anything it is easy to change back.
Please, I have to reformate this new harddrive i got and I have no clue how to install the onboard sound card i have. I did the **** like delete it in first and then restart and it "should" update drivers but it doesn't. This is the first time it happened to me too and nothin fried or anything.
I have recently invested in a new PCI sound card to enable 5.1 surround sound. One problem, after restarting my PC after installing the drivers my onboard Ethernet adapter no longer works. In device manager it has an orange warning triangle on and on the task bar a red 'x'. When I look at the properties it says (Error Code 10)
Please somebody help me out I did a fresh install and lost my drivers, on a dell optiplex I believe it is the 270 model.. With cpu-z the mainboard shows as 0x1105
Everything has been found by windows after I put a wireless card in to update however windows doesn't find the audio driver Ethernet etc all good, I have the original install disk but that doesn't have any drivers on it.
So if anyone could point me towards the direction of either the original drivers cd or well anything would be appreciated.
Alright, so my hand-me-down computer is a Compaq Deskpro still running Windows 98. I know that's just asking for trouble, but really, I need some help here.
The Deskpro has an integrated, onboard sound card - an ESS 1869 sound card that was pretty good until I bought myself a Hercules 5.1 surround PCI card. I installed the thing as well as the latest drivers and whatnot, everything seemed to be going good, until I realized the sound was still going through the onboard ESS sound card, while the PCI card wasn't doing anything at all.
So I tried using the Windows 98 Device manager to disable the two ESS audio devices that were listed; one was an "Control Interface" the other a "Plug-n-Play AudioTable". Didn't work. Instead of audio coming out of the wrong sound card, I got NO audio whatsoever.
Then I went into the BIOS, and set the "onboard audio" setting under the "Onboard Devices" tab to "disabled." That solved NOTHING.
So now I'm confused and frustrated and rather angry. Anyone have any idea of the twisted inner workings of the Compaq Deskpro? Anyone have a similar situation? Or does anyone wanna possibly send me a new Alienware computer to shut me up?
I have window 98se, pen3, 256mem, 12gb hd, intel mb/ model D815EEA that has onboard audio (the sound does not work at this point).
I want to add a sound card in the PCI slot. What would be the best way to do this? Do I need to do anything in the BIOS?
Yes, there should be an option in the BIOS to disable the onboard sound. You may need to do this so that there will not be a resourse conflict..ie.. IRQ, I/O...
Then after you disable it in the BIOS, then reboot, shut down, install card, reboot, go into BIOS, save changes and exit. Then, the PC will reboot. Watch on POST to see if the new sound card is seen... Then if it is, you may only need to install the drivers manually if plug and play doesn't pick it up as seen with the "New hardware found" wizard that should come to life on the initial boot after the new card is installed.
When I opened up my PC to install a new Firewire port (Pinnacle Studio)I discovered I didn't have a free slot. So I removed my Soundblaster Card and connected the black plug and lead to the Cd in Connector JCD1 on my onboard sound card.I then installed the firewire card in the slot left vacant by the soundblaster card.I no longer seem to have "windows sounds" butI can play Audio Cd's fine using windows media player, and my haupagge TV card works and has sound. However when I try to use Pinnacle I get the message that "Pinnacle cannot initialise audio playback . The audio subsystem may be in use by another program"Although I uninstalled SBlaster my Pc still looks for it on start up. Can anybody help?
press f3 and type in the name sblaster and then click on find next when it shows delete the line and press f3 again until the message finished searching the registry comes up. reboot and all should be well. normal dire warnings about the registry apply but normally you get no probs with it.
Could you please advise whether I will achieve better sound quality by using the onboard Realtek HD Audio connection that is part of my Asus Motherboard or by reinstalling my Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music Sound Card or doesn't it make any difference?
With the onboard HD Audio I have a digital optical cable running from the Motherboard to the optical connection of the Logitech 'Digital SoundTouch Control Centre' that came with the speakers.
Both ways allow me to play music DVD's etc. in Digital Theatre Sound (DTS) or 5.1 Digital Surround Sound, but I was just wondering if one connection was better than the other?
I was using a X-fi Fatal1ty Pro that was mostly stable. Ocassionally I'd get a strange tone being emitted from the card, but not on a regular basis. The big pluses were very good sound quality and reduced CPU workload during sound playback.
Whereas, with my onboard Intel HD Audio I'm finding the entire system to be more responsive, the sound quality while quite good isn't as good as creative's card. Also, CPU workload has increased a lot.
Notable; is that the intel solution is a complete 64 bit software package, whereas creative mixes a 64 bit driver with 3 32 bit support processes and audio controller. I believe creative needs to improve their driver and software with respect to compliance to microsoft specs, and I won't be at all surprised if vista SP1 refuses to work with them.
If i was to buy a sound card, and i connect hdmi to graphics card and use tv to watch a blu ray, what sound would be used? Im assuming onboard is that right?
I'm Suzy, I dont know much bout PC, soft or hardware. Recently I just bought Creative Xtreem Audio. However, I discovered that the old sound card is intergrated w the ATI motherboard. When I check on Device Manager the current audio card is ((realtek ac97 audio driver)) . Does anyone know how to disable this audio card in order to install the X-Fi card
Can you pull it out? Or it's onboard? If so, go in BIOS and disable it, or there may be a jumper on the board to do so.
does anyone know which are the sure ways to diagnose your onboard sound card and make sure that the chip is "dead"?
I tried to search this topic on the internet, but found very little, and mostly those are software-related tips. I am sure there are some advanced ways to check it in the home environment setup.
In trying to solve my mic issues, I've decided to make the jump from my ASUS P5B's onboard audio (7.1 Soundmax HD) to a 3rd party sound card. Money's tight, and I've heard from enough people that even a cheaper card will still be an improvement in terms of performance (less strain on my CPU during games, etc), and a reduction in sound interference on the microphone (my biggest problem right now).
I went to Bestbuy. The bottom of their sound card barrel was a Dynex 5.1, then a Dynex 7.1, both under $50, and my next option was a $100 Creative card. I went for the better of the two Dynex cards.
Came home and began the process of installing it (I've done a fair bit of surgery on my PC by myself, but I'm still not that knowledgable), and discovered that the manual was telling me to connect some cables to the card, which I haven't had to do with past sound cards I've owned in older computers. I don't care about any front ports like headphone or mic, but are any of the other connections essential? Things like S/PDIF and something called "game port" (I don't even know what that is or where I'd find it on my mobo)?
If I need to connect the DVD drive I have a problem, because the bundle of wires that goes from the power source to the DVD and then out from there doesn't reach the soundcard (mainly because I have to install it upside down because of which side my mobo attaches to my case on)... Read more
I have never heard of that card but I can tell you that spdif is a digital audio out that you wont need unless you have an amplifier that has spdif in on it and that the game port is very old technology and you wont need that either unless you have an old game-pad that you want to use.
If the problem with your on-board sound is just that the mic alone wont work then uninstall the audio driver in device manager and re-install it. I had the exact same problem 3 days ago with my on-board sound on my asus mobo and what I just suggested fixed it.
After re-installing Win XP Professional, Windows unable to install on-board soundcare, can any one help me on this, no sound card driver available on the net and asus site.
So recently my on board audio stopped working for no reason and it doesn't look like it's been fried the board is only 2 months old. Yes I have tried device manager etc it's nothing to do with windows now I inserted a sound I then got my sound back that was great for a few days now Tonight I cleaned up the wiring to make it neater then took out the card to see if the on board would go still nothing so I disabled the on board re installed the card and Now the card is doing the same thing? I tried everything device manager,driver re install etc
I am over it is having a working PC a lot to ask for its been causing me a lot of issues since I got it.
With the on-board audio enabled, what is the status in the Device Manager? Does it show working OK or does it have an error code?
I'm running Windows Vista, Intel Dual Core 2 with 2gb RAM.My problem is that some time ago (say.. 1 month), my sound completely disappeared. I restarted my computer to see if this would fix it.. instead it made it worse.. now Vista doesn't even find my sound card even if it's on my mother board, the Windows sound options tells me i have no sound devices installed even though i have both working speakers and a working microphone plugged in (tested them on a different computer and they work).I have tried checking my sound card in BIOS (tells me it's working and is activated), installed/uninstalled/reinstalled Realtek sound drivers and mother board drivers several times with no luck. The drivers install successfully, but nothing happens after i restart. I have uninstalled the only thing in the Device Manager that has anything to do with sound, "High Definition Audo-Controller".. it gets reinstalled when i restart my computer, Vista actually detects this.. but nothing happens and i still have no sound.Any ideas? if you need more information about my computer feel free to ask.. this problem is getting annoying, i've done anything and everything i can think of..
I'm afraid, you may need new sound card (how old is your computer?), but let me ask you this...While updating sound drivers, was it self-installing file, or you updated it through Device Manager?
Hello, I was wondering about the quality of the onboard audio on the T430. I just bought a nice pair of Gradio SR80i's and am considering getting a sound card along with them, but I don't know how much of a difference it is going to make in respect to the onboard audio. Has anyone tried adding a sound card paired with a entry-level or better audiophile headset to see if a difference was noticeable or if the onboard audio was good enough? I've read on the web that sound cards do make a difference, but that it is becoming less and less noticeable with newer onboard audio chips. Also, for those that are using an external sound card, what model is it? Thanks!
Sporting T530 with M-Audio Firewire 410 external soundcard. Unfortunately, I do not own any pair of middle/upper class headphones, only a pair of KRK Rokit 5 monitors. Tried them once with onboard Realtek sound card. As far as the quality of the sound goes, dunno. I guess M-Audio should sound "better". I opted for an external card for home studio production purposes and having that in mind, M-Audio is quite better. Although, I did work for quite some time using onboard Realtek audio + ASIO4All and it worked quite nicely. I was actually quite surprised. Hope you'll find this info useful, although not exatcly what you were looking for.
Hey, I recent put together this new rig. I'm using the onboard sound card for my Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R Rev 2.0 mobo. The sound chipset is Realtek ALC889. I've updated the latest drivers, but there is crackling/static noise when I play music.
Currently I mainly use a 2.1 speaker system. But Ive tried testing it with headphones the static/crackling noises persists. It is not constant, but it shows up periodically. Furthermore, when there is no music/sound playing the noise is not there. This leads me to believe its a hardware/driver issue and not so much a speaker/interference issue.
Do you have a wireless (wi fi) connection? They have been known to cause this. A cordless phone or cell phone sitting close by is also a potential. Video card/drivers have also been another issue.
There are many possibilites and many forum posts about this problem, here, on the Dell users forum and other internet computer forums. No "one fix" for the problem.
I am using a Creative Sound Blaster external soundcard but the recording level is very low and have been advised by Creative to disable the onboard sound card in BIOS but there is no option to do this. Can anyone help ?
I have plugged in a new sound card to my HP Pavilion 500 PC series because I want one sound to card to run with iTunes and the new one to run with another media player.
I simply opened the case and plugged in the new sound card (Sound Blaster Audigy FX). The new sound card is working but the original one is no longer working.
Some media players will allow you to select the destination (ie: audio chipset) in their configuration. If either of your media players has that option (in the audio configuration of the media player), then use that player to select the non-default audio chipset.
I'm having problems with my sound on my computer. I had downloaded the latest drivers from the via web site and everything was going fine. I have made no changes to the computer except for installing The Sims and everything was working fine. Now the problem is that I get some sound but not all. Best description is "choppy". It happens w/ sound efects and music files. The only thing I have not tried is playing an audio cd. Of course I removed the sound device. Now this is the strange part. I run the driver install that I downloaded and I get a message on the computer that says the via chipset has not been enabled in the bios. This is incorrect. The chipset is enabled. The onboard sound is enabled. So, after removing the sound device from device mgr I reboot the computer. The comuputer recognizes a pci communications device and locates and installs the drivers for it. Wow! Imagin that. Of course I get the same problem. Any suggestions? Need more info? let me know.Thanks.
First of all, I have an Albatron PX845PEV Pro board with the original drivers from the homepage. (Realtek AC'97 Audio driver version 5.10.0.5100)
But as soon as i start a game (WoW, Steam CS, Rome:Total war) the sound gets bad... i mean REAL bad.
Since english is not my native language i have some problems expressing how the sound is like... But well, just imagine you pack a pair of bad headphones in a tin box and crank it up loud. Thats pretty much how it sounds ;-)
Dont really feel like stuffing an expensive sound card into my PC... My old ASRock K7 Board for instance only had onboard sound too, but it was definetly enough for my standards...
I have a Lenovo Thinkpad T510 type 4384-BR2 and the sound keeps dying within a few minutes a booting. If I boot linux Fedora 18 then once the sound has died, I have not found any way of getting the sound to restart without rebooting.Strangely, with Windows 7 Enterprise SP1 plus optional Sound patches both from Microsoft updates and Lenovo, the sound dies just the same however I can be repaired by a) Looking at recording devices in one of the control panel menus b) adjusting the volume using the volume icon on the task bar. A quick google search says this problem happening on YouTube clips and was fixed by a flashplayer update, however I get this problem using every application even just using VLC to play an mp3.A year ago linux suffered an issue with identical symptoms (didn't have Windows installed then), and that appeared to be fixed by replacing the Motherboard under warranty.Is this a hardware fault, that gets reset by Windows? or is this a software fault? Has anyone seen anything like this before?BTW linux calls the onboard sound device:Code: [Select]00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 06)
As changing the volume under Windows restores the sound for 30 seconds I started to think this might be a software problem, but ....IBM changed the motherboard today, and the issue is resolved !!!Can someone suggest why changing the volume would reset a hardware fault with the audio
Firstly thanks for the forums and support, I've used this forum before searching problems, finding solutions. But alas, this is the first time I've not been able to rectify my issue after searching on the forums.
There is no sound coming from my computer. There once was sound, but the computer was dormant for 6 months and I replaced the Power Supply, and now there is no sound. I've tried uninstalling/reinstalling/updating all drivers. I've tried configuring my audio devices (Currently there are 4 listed: Speakers, RealTex HD Audio 2nd Output, Digital Output(RCA+ Optical) and RealTek Digital Output).
When I play sound, levels are shown going up and down, indicating that the audio devices are aware of the sound, but no matter what speakers I plug in I still don't get sound. I've tried 3 different outputs, 1 of which were headphones, all of which didn't work. I have also tried accessing my PC remotely from my iPad through SplashTop, which plays the sounds from the PC, weirdly.
Ive just built a new pc for a friend & while testing it found that if i play a music cd in the dvd drive & skip a track the music goes very slow that also causes the sound in a chat room to go slow too what could be the problem here ??
I have a really weird thing going on. I have a asus PG5D1 motherboard. I'm not sure if it's the pro or the normal version but when I compare the pictures of the two motherboards on the Asus website with what mine looks like, it looks like a P5GD1 Pro motherboard.
So when I click on the downloads part of the page dedicated to that motherboard I look for the sound drivers for the onboard sound and the latest ones are very old like 2005.
So it's really weird, since Realtek just says that not getting the drivers from the manufacturer will only cause me to loose the special tools and gadgets from the manufacturer (Asus here), but that's not a problem, I just want to upgrade the drivers.
Either it's Asus that messed up or I'm not getting the correct ones from the website. Another weird thing is that inside Everest (a program to get infos on my PC and what's in it), it says my sound card is a "Intel 82801FB ICH6 - High Definition Audio Controller [B-1]". Also if I look the audio drivers on the asus website for the P5GD1 motherboard (the normal not the &... Read more
Greetings! The headphone jack on my Sony Vaio notebook has a "loose contact" and it is no longer possible to listen with headphones. So I bought a USB sound card and plugged it in. That works fine when you are listening through the headphones but the card seems to hijack the whole sound system. It installs itself as THE sound card and the original card is disabled. If I boot up the machine with the USB card it automatically installs itself (logical enough). If I then want to just briefly listen to a file without searching for my headphones it is not possible. The internal speakers are not running through the USB sound card. If I go into the Control Center and change the sound card under "Audio" I can then listen through the internal speakers. But this is a real pain. I tried using Device Manager and the Audio in Control Center to see if I could re-route the internal speakers through the USB card but I couldn't even locate them let alone re-route them. If anyone out there knows how to do this I would appreciate the tip. Maybe it's just not possible. One or the other.I was also wondering if I would have the same problem if I bought a PCMCIA Sound Card? Thanks, Dave
It is normal to have an either or situation under the usual [ mechanical switch] Headphone/Speaker jack.Speaker then plug in phones - no speakerSo I amgine 'plug in' devices whether USB or PCMCIAwill follow- electronically- the same route.
Hello, I just bought an ASUS Xonar D1 PCI audio card (Vista certified) to activate and enjoy the HTPC features of my computer. Before physically installing the new card I tried to disable on-board sound in BIOS. Unfortunately, the BIOS did not have any of the expected choices in the Advanced/Audio section. The only audio choice I had was to disable "HDA Controller". I experimented later with this choice both enabled and disabled but without success. Since I couldn't do much of anything in BIOS, I disabled the current sound choices in Device Manager, then proceeded with the physical installation of the new internal sound card. I removed the existing modem card from the PCI slot and had no problem installing the Xonar D1 in the same PCI slot and loading the Xonar software. Apparently the new card was recognized, but playback through any and all applications was at about half speed. For the next few hours I experimented with the Xonar software, Vista's Control Panel adjustments, the one BIOS choice and uninstalling and re-installing the new card with endless variations to the above. Maybe the new card is bad, but I have no way of testing it. I would really appreciate any suggestions: Did I follow the right procedures?Is it possible to disable integrated sound in Idea Center BIOS?Has anyone successfully installed a new sound card in Idea Center? Thanks, Specs: Lenovo Idea Center K210 57076161Memory: ... Read more
I'm having a problem with my sound card. I got a new sound card, installed a new OS (Win2k) and now I can't disable my onboard sound. It doesn't show up in the BIOS and everytime I remove it through device manager, Windows finds new Hardware
This problem is causing significant lag and my new card sounds like the matrix buzz when they come out of the matrix and in.
There should be a way to disable it in BIOS-- keep looking. If you can't disable it there, Windows will continue to detect it. If that's indeed the case, you could try disabling it in Device Manager rather than removing it.
Question: Can I use the front computer case for my headphones(onboard audio), and a sound card for my speakers?
I have a sound blaster sound card that is just laying around because I have my on-board audio, which means I cant use my front case jacks if I use the sound card (doesn't connect with my sound card). Is it true that if I have my sound card in with its drivers and don't disable my on-board, I can plug my mic into the front and talk/get audio and have my speakers hooked up to the sound card? Doesn't have to be at the same time, just separate would even be fine. Just wondering before I pop this in and install drivers etc..
Answer:Can I use the front computer case for my headphones(onboard audio), and a sound card for my speakers?
The headphone jack on my Sony Vaio notebook has a "loose contact" and it is no longer possible to listen with headphones. So I bought a USB sound card and plugged it in. That works fine when you are listening through the headphones but the card seems to hijack the whole sound system. It installs itself as THE sound card and the original card is disabled. If I boot up the machine with the USB card it automatically installs itself (logical enough). If I then want to just briefly listen to a file without searching for my headphones it is not possible. The internal speakers are not running through the USB sound card. If I go into the Control Center and change the sound card under "Audio" I can then listen through the internal speakers. But this is a real pain. I tried using Device Manager and the Audio in Control Center to see if I could re-route the internal speakers through the USB card but I couldn't even locate them let alone re-route them. If anyone out there knows how to do this I would appreciate the tip. Maybe it's just not possible. One or the other.
I have Boston BA735USB speakers, the sound card is out dated and since updating to XP. I have have no sound so I am searching to save at least the speakers and get a new sound card. Creative does not make a sound card the I can use my spearker on is ther a company that does. Something "simple" plug & play
according to the Boston acoustic website you only need to make sure you have a digital sound card , check the site and you'll find a link to the creative website , hope this helps . you don't need a sound card with usb outputs , if there is even such a thing
Hey All,1st post,using a medical cow that the hospital I work at threw out.It has a internal wireless which I finally got configured,but guess what no sound!Used device mgr and confirmed it.It's p4 1.4.20 gig HD.2 usb outs,question can I buy a external sound card?I planned on putting a ext DVD to it,but will wait to see if it's worth putting $ into.Thanks,Gary
PS a cow is a mobile PC to move around an ER in a hospital,all in one as the CPU is in the monitor,no outs or cd or dvd drives, just 2 usb ports.
While playing a game (lost plannet: Extreeme condidtion) my pc crashed and reset itself. Since then i have been unable to get any sound, when sound is played it just makes a static sound. The only slight bit of sound i can hear is when playing the speaker test program in C-media. I can hear the voice slightly under the static sound.
This will confirm all Windows files are intact. Your Windows CD may be required during the scan if any files are found corrupted