Audio

[kaiweiler]

Hey, i just put in a sound card, but my audio is still trying to come from my onboard sound, I have the Abit NF7-S mobo which has some decent onboard audio to it.
How do i set the sound card as default?
http://www.chinkii.com/uploads/album/misc/defaultaudio.JPG

http://www.chinkii.com/uploads/album/misc/defaultaudio2.JPG

Anyone know how?

Thanks
Kai

[bigdawgfoxx]

go to control panel and then to device manager under administrative tools..on the onboard sound click disable..that might work.

[tesco]

go into the device manager and uninstall the driver for teh sound card then go into your bios and disable teh onboard sound.

im not sure but you might have to uninstall your new soundcard too to get it to be default.

[kaiweiler]

Hmm alright, here's what it says in device manager for my audio

http://www.chinkii.com/uploads/album/misc/defaultaudio3.JPG

What ones should i disable or uninstall?

[clocker]

Can't you just go to Control Panel>Sounds and Audio Devices>Sound Playback>Set Default Device?
When I installed my Soundblaster Extigy it showed up in the options and I just chose it as the default...I didn't have to disable/uninstal drivers or anything.

[kaiweiler]

haha clocker you never cease to amaze me, you make everything seem so simple!

however i still have the yellow exclamation mark in my device manager
http://www.chinkii.com/uploads/album/misc/defaultaudio3.JPG
that alright?

[clocker]

When you click on the "Game Port" what does it tell you?
Maybe all you have to do is click on "enable this device"....

[kaiweiler]

http://www.chinkii.com/uploads/album/misc/gameport.JPG

[tesco]

go to the creative website and get the latest drivers for it to try them and if that dont work just forget about it, you dont use the gameport do you?

[kaiweiler]

what does the game port do? let you use a mic in online games? i really have no idea, but thats my guess
I might use it if i knew what it was
:unsure:

[johnboy27]

the game port is for plugging older style game comtrollers into.As for the yellow exclamation mark.It tells you in the properties why it isn't working.It says it cannot find enough resources .Therefor your bets bet would be to go into your BIOS and disable the onboard sound,then after you reboot go in and uninstall your onboard sound .this will free up some resources.You could also try moving your sound card to a different slot.

[tesco]

it looks kinda like a parallel port only a bit shorter (not to much shorter, that ones a serial port) It used to be used for joysticks and steering wheels and game pads, but now most of them are usb because its a lot faster so they can easily incorporate force feedpack, rumble packs and many buttons.

if you want to get a joystick or something just get a usb one.

[kaiweiler]

hmm thats odd, as there is no gameport on my card...
there are only 3 spots, 2 speaker and a mic
i may switch back to onboard sound, think the onboard sound from a NF7-S is better then a shitty creative PCI card?

[tesco]

what kind of card is it? maybe they have the ability to add in teh gameport to teh card but then didnt put a gameport onto it.

[kaiweiler]

Originally posted by ROSSCO_2004@25 January 2004 - 13:30
what kind of card is it? maybe they have the ability to add in teh gameport to teh card but then didnt put a gameport onto it.
I highly doubt that as it is just a shitty card that I "borrowed" out of a school computer. :ph34r:
not sure what it's called but im pretty sure it's bad lol

[tesco]

Originally posted by kaiweiler+25 January 2004 - 12:45--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (kaiweiler @ 25 January 2004 - 12:45)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-ROSSCO_2004@25 January 2004 - 13:30
what kind of card is it? maybe they have the ability to add in teh gameport to teh card but then didnt put a gameport onto it.
I highly doubt that as it is just a shitty card that I "borrowed" out of a school computer. :ph34r:
not sure what it&#39;s called but im pretty sure it&#39;s bad lol [/b][/quote]
lol i "borrowed" a card from school a few weeks ago, i got a shitty soundblaster16 ISA card, it was to use on a p3 comp im building, also got a pci video card, neither worked, the video just showed a black screena dnteh soundcard wouldnt install drivers, it said that its the worng drivers, but i know i using teh right ones so ive given up on both.

time to borrow a different video card and soundcard i guess. my friend borrowed a hard drive, nice 10gig lol.

[kaiweiler]

so what do you think is better? a shitty PCI card or my good onboard sound?
anyone?

[clocker]

Originally posted by kaiweiler@25 January 2004 - 12:15
so what do you think is better? a shitty PCI card or my good onboard sound?
anyone?
Didn&#39;t you just answer your own question?

[tesco]

definately the onboard, its like 6 channels isnt it? i heard nforce has awsome sound quality, definately use that.

[kaiweiler]

aight
thanks boys

[_John_Lennon_]

Originally posted by kaiweiler@25 January 2004 - 17:17
aight
thanks boys
And also, the Nforce MCP or MCP-T, are both excellant sound system, the -T usually meaning SounStorm last time I checked too, which is the better of the two.

[BiG_aL]

See kai told you in the first place our onboard is better.