how to activate 2 soundcards

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I know this is an impossible question but is there a way i can activate 2 soundcards on
I have disabled the onboard soundcard in the bios,and installed my 5.1 soundcard,whch is pci card.
Now with tears in my eyes,for the love on mary i just cannot make both work
I know its impossible as a pc is not designed for both to work because of the bios setting and motherboard,
But there has to be a program or software or driver to do this
I need to use earphones for cue and the other sound card for output

plz anyone,help a fool out:(
 
of course you can run two soundcards at the same time.
what do you think skype phones are? fairy dust?

just enable your onboard in the bios, plug your pci one in and start loading drivers. you may be pleasantly suprised.

if it doesnt work, it may be a bios limitation, but many many many many peopple have two or more soundcards enabled
 
werner said:
of course you can run two soundcards at the same time.
what do you think skype phones are? fairy dust?

just enable your onboard in the bios, plug your pci one in and start loading drivers. you may be pleasantly suprised.

if it doesnt work, it may be a bios limitation, but many many many many peopple have two or more soundcards enabled
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So I can use the lines-in on both my onboard Intel HD Audio and my X-Fi Xtrememusic at the same time? :) :) :) :)
 
Normally you need a program that will do this, Windows AFAIK only works with one soundcard at a time, which is the default card

Anyway programs like SAW Sonar and Cubase will all run multi Soundcards, in fact as many as you can fit, for the fun of it I tried doing five once, but only managed to get four working because of IRQ problems
 
if i try and enable it in bios and start up windows,the blue screen of death is apon me.
but i placed the sound card on third pci slot
must i place it on the number one slot
this will be very difficult as i have no ordinary sound card.It takes the space of 2 pci slots,but only plugs in the one slot,it has a extra circuit board with spdf and 4 digital optical ports

SO WHAAT next
 
Change the IRQ settings of the onboard, you can do that in the BIOS - if you are not using the onboard's MIDI disable that to

I would have thought that if you have the BIOS set to PNP aware, it would have changed the settings
 
DragonLogos said:
Change the IRQ settings of the onboard, you can do that in the BIOS - if you are not using the onboard's MIDI disable that to

I would have thought that if you have the BIOS set to PNP aware, it would have changed the settings
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well it did not
I guess i will try that again,will this use memory from my pc,
If it dont work then its a motherboard/bios limitation:cool:
 
I would take out the TV Card and the USB Card out... until you have sorted out the Soundcards
 
in old-skool days, your soundblaster irq was 5 for the first card, the second card would be set to irq7 (you need to disable the parallel port or move it to another irq because it normally resides on 7)

nowdays, this shouldnt factor into it, but the above it testament that before plug and play was around (1997 mainstream) people were running multiple soundcards.
 
I dont really want to, as i am on a time limit ,but like i said i cannot place the sound card on pci 1 slot.But i will take your advice.I will take them out
 
CMI8738/C3DX PCI Audio Device
MPU-401 Compatible MIDI Device
SmartTV LE WDM TV Tuner
SmartTV LE WDM Video Capture
Standard Game Port

Board: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. GA-8S650GXM
Bus Clock: 100 megahertz
BIOS: Award Software International, Inc. 6.00 PG
 
CHecked out the spec, looks like you have a problem with the two game ports, disable the onboard in the BIOS... my guess is they are both trying to grap the same address for the MIDI port, which is output via the game port, and is known as MPU 401 (much like RS 232 and so on)
 
BTW what does the blue screen say, often that is a big clue as to what is up

for example if it says IRQ_LESS_THAN_EQUAL it might then say were it has the problem
 
DragonLogos said:
CHecked out the spec, looks like you have a problem with the two game ports, disable the onboard in the BIOS... my guess is they are both trying to grap the same address for the MIDI port, which is output via the game port, and is known as MPU 401 (much like RS 232 and so on)
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i sorted those game ports awhile back already.I disabled the onboard gameport via the bios.I had that problem solved 8 days ago.I dont have a prob with the pc in general,i just wantedtotry and have both soundcards opperational
 
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