soundcard

I bought a new Creative 5.1 soundblaster live sound card which is external and was wondering if i need to disable my old original soundcard, all the new one does is plug into the back of the computer but i'm not sure if i'm suppose to do something with the old one. thanks

drew

 

Does it plug in via USB?? If so, then yes, I would go into the bios and disable the onboard sound!!

Roger

 

yeah it does plug in via USB, how would i go about disabling that, not sure what you mean by going into bios.

drew

 

You are supposed to read the anouncement at the top of the forum before posting so we have your computer specs ,to enter the bios the key is usually del or f2 it can be others depending on what computer you have,once in there you will have search the menus for your onboard sound and disable it.

 

Sorry about that this is my info

Computer:
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
OS Service Pack Service Pack 2
Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.2180
Motherboard:
CPU Type: AMD Athlon XP, 1500 MHz (7.5 x 200) 1700+
Motherboard Name: Asus A7N8X-X (5 PCI, 1 AGP, 3 DIMM, Audio, LAN)
Motherboard Chipset: nVIDIA nForce2 400
System Memory: 512 MB (PC2700 DDR SDRAM)
BIOS Type Award (10/07/03)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM1)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM2)
Communication Port ECP Printer Port (LPT1)
Display:
Video Adapter Radeon 7000 / Radeon VE (64 MB)
Video Adapter Radeon 7000 / Radeon VE (64 MB)
3D Accelerator ATI RV100 DDR
Monitor Acer AF-706 (FBUL35209188U)
Multimedia:
Audio Adapter nVIDIA MCP2 - Audio Codec Interface
Storage:
Floppy Drive Floppy disk drive
Disk Drive WDC WD1200JB-00DUA3
Optical Drive SONY DVD RW DRU-710A
Partitions:
C: (NTFS) 114463 MB (48993 MB free)

 

when the first screen comes on,where it runs a memory check and reports the speed of your cpu,does it say anywhere on the screen press """ key to enter bios?

 

yeah it says press delete so i did that and got into bios, is their suppose to be a way in that to disable the souncard then?

 

you will have to search through the menu's in bios,use the arrows to navigate and return to selet a menu,check in integrated peripherals,find an onboard sound option press return set set to disable

 

I don't think you should have to disable your onboard sound; I didn't. I have an Area-51m 766 and use a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 NX external USB soundcard and it works just fine w/o disabling anything in Windows, let alone in the BIOS... the biggest problem I ever have is sometimes after using the onboard sound for a while for whatever reason it sometimes doesn't default back to the NX right away, which is easily fixed by changing the current sound card in Control Panel and logging out and then back in. Then again I suppose it depends on your hardware.