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22-Jul-2008, 05:40 PM #1
Exclamation Sound card issues
A while back I added an Nvidia sound card to my computer for my new surround sound system, after a LOT of playing around I finally got my computer to accept my new sound card and play audio over my new speakers. The sound card my computer came with was just a backup from then on. My new surround card, as far as I could tell, wouldn't let me use headphones or a mic without disconnecting anything but I managed to get a mic to run through my old sound card and play over my new speakers. I have no idea how I did it but it was old sound card with mic and new with speakers. I recently started playing around with fruity loops and this meant I had to configure ASIO, so I did, but I also switched to a different mic and headphone port on my computer.. for convenience reasons. well after I got everything running my mic worked and played over my headset.. but no audio from the speakers. now I can't get anything to play over the speakers and I've been trying to figure this out for a while. I want my speakers working #1. and #2 I want to use my mic over the speakers like before. help?
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22-Jul-2008, 06:05 PM #2
Did you disable the old sound card before using the new one?

Look in the Sounds applet in Control Panel and see what hardware is designated for each.
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22-Jul-2008, 06:28 PM #3
well my old sound driver is also my video driver so I'd rather not mess with it. My sound cards are my default C Media wave device and my newer Nvidia Nforce audio.. thing. if I have that backwards sorry but the way I had it working before was with C media as my mic input and Nvidia as my sound output. now when I set nvidia as my sound output it still comes out of my headphone slot. also it's probably important that I have that ASIO thing now
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22-Jul-2008, 06:37 PM #4
Surely sound and graphics have separate drivers. What is the make/model of machine?

Often the onboard audio can be disabled in BIOS for add-on cards to be used.
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22-Jul-2008, 09:58 PM #5
well system restore fixed it... ah well I suppose that doesn't explain the problem or how to fix it but I have things working well enough now
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24-Jul-2008, 11:20 AM #6
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