Replacing onBoard sound with Sound card?

dimitri · Joined: 08 Jul 2005 Posts: 55

Hello. I am about to start listening my music with the new PCI sound card. My onBoard sound does not support 5.1 system, and I want to enjoy DVD movies little more than I did so far. I hope this is not difficult to do. I don’t want to call service guy, because it will cost me a lot I suppose. Which steps are required to do in order to install everything successfully? Thanks in advance.

cleon · Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 67

Greetings. There is no replacement, just enabling and disabling the onboard sound. The option for enabling/disabling integrated sound card is inside the BIOS. Built-in Input/output Operating System. Depends on your motherboard, maybe you won’t need to enter the BIOS at all or to change anything. Just plug in your new sound card to the PCI slot, and after new hardware detection, you can continue with installing drivers. If something goes wrong and there is no sound at all, then there is a problem with your motherboard resources or IRQ sharing. This means, you must disable the onboard sound first. By the way, I do have two sound cards working as well together, and I have no conflicts at all.

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