Onboard Sound

[del_35]

Ok my problem is that a friend is a professional muscian and is 100% sure that disabled onboard sound can cause probelms with his dedicated sound card.

Is it possible for disabled onboard sound to cause any conflict whatsoever with a dedicated card if the onboard sound is disabled via the bios.

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[Crashman]

No, it can't cause any problems because the part is no longer seen by BIOS or the rest of the hardware, it is cut off at the chipset and no longer being addressed by the chipset, so it's "not there" to the system.

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[marneus]

definately not... disabled mean it does not have any effect in windows at all(ie it is logically unplugged...)

now the drivers & programs that were installed with the onboard soundchip ... they can cause problems sometimes so uninstall them...

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[Aidanoridania]

well i have a trouble with my sound card and that f(§!king onboard sound (i NEVER liked it and the reason why came true: i have indeed a conflict, and therefore i call for any kind of help that could be available...

i have the asus p4t 533 c motherboard with only onboard sound on it, and a soundblaster live platinum 5.1 soundcard.
After having disabled the onboard sound (with a jumper setting) and after having disabled the onboard sound in the BIOS as well my sound card refuses still operation...

now i suspect two things:

1) it might be that i forgot something, but i re-chekced everything a whole day long, and for sure everything was disabled (on hardware scale as well as in the bios) changed the soundcard from slot, everything that might be the cause on "plug and pray" scale, but it doesn't help.

2) sometimes when i shut windows down, there was a tiny flicker of sound from the shut down sound, so it could be an irq issue that's not fairly distributed by winBLOWS (win2k is my OS) so could it be an OS issue? i don't know, i went deep into it and i didn't found the answer...
i also add here that i even went to download the latest drivers available.

now by misery i plugged out the soundblaster and use the onboard audio (which is amazingly not that bad, even quite good, i have to admit) and everything works fine, but i want my little card to work fine, i don't like to throw 250€ on the dump...

so if anyone can figure it out or give some advice, it might be of a great help...

thanks

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i fortgot to add an important detail: when powered up the first time, the onboard was disabled and therefore not found nor detected by windows, so i presume the disable was correctly done, so there weren't any onboard drivers installed, ( the support CD didn't show the link of the installation of the AC 97 drivers when the jumper and bios setting is set to disabled)
<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by aidanoridania on 01/09/03 06:00 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[del_35]

Thanks for the input folks i appreciate it.
I'm sorry 'aidanoridania' but i can't answer your question but it doesnt sound like the onboard sound is causeing the probelm. I've put a few posts up on the web and everyone has come back saying that once disabled it's gone, as 'Crashman' above said.
All i can say speaking from experience is that 'soundblaster live's' are notourious for causing conflicts to computers for many reasons - just do a search in google. I suggest you play with IRQ's a bit as that seems to help. If not try reinstalling windows 98/xp/2000, different drivers or swapping hardware. All the best in the quest. Post here if you solve it as i'm interested

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[Aidanoridania]

i will i gonna reinstall the whole windows stuff (maybe my former comp is haunting around lol

i guessed it had something to do with that winblows, i now read that it overruled the bios irq settings in ACPI - mode. The soundblaster live seems to be unhappy with that, and i'm now trying to fix it.

(so maybe the tiny fraction of sound comes out when this overruling setting is shut down, that's possible)


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[del_35]

Glad to hear it aidanoridania
On another note - my friend is thinking of getting either an M-audio delta 44 or the delta 66 by Midiman.

Does anyone know of any conflicts this may cause with a GA-8SR533, P4 2.4 (533fsb), 256mb 266mhz DDR, Win XP/RH 8?

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[Aidanoridania]

Problem is solved it was just another software stuff

in fact i reinstalled windows after a very drastic "format C:" and i reinstalled the whole soundblaster and... no problems anymore :lol:

i guess it was just my OS that was flipping around with everything, as it wasn't refreshed yet. Normally after an upgrade i reinstall the whole Windows and... nothing's happening now.

i think it was the whole registry that was a crappy mess and didn't knew if it was dealing with my old or my new comp, and from there maybe the problem...

so in general there is indeed no problem with onboard sound, just take care that windows isn't completely messed up :lol:

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