soundcard install - help a lady out

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dazzazzad

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My American online friend is trying to install a Diamond soundcard into her case. I have very little experience when it comes to the inside of cases.

She says the soundcard slots don't allow her to press it into either of the available PCI slots. From the photos you can see that they don't match up. Which strikes me as...odd.

I suggested trying to move the GPU and using one of those slots but I'm sure someone out there will have a clearer idea...

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Isn't the white slot meant to be PCI? Could she maybe move her 5850 GPU?
 
Board seems to only have PCI-Express slots,PCI sound card wont be fitting
 
Can't see any PCI slots in the picture. It looks like the motherboard has no (legacy) PCI slots. She needs a PCIe (or USB) sound card.
 
solution

first she needs to remove the red ATI RADEON card than slot the other card in there if it would fit
 
Fulcrum29 said:
Interesting... Did she need that pci soundcard for a joystick?
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Her mobo is causing problems. Her headphone gets recognized as a mic. Keeps getting errors. So she figured a soundcard would be the solution.
 
That's definitely a 3 PCIe 16 slot board with at least one PCIe 1 slot. She will need to get a PCIe sound card, NewEgg has a few ranging from $11 to $200. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...8658 600011982&IsNodeId=1&name=PCI Express x1

Is the front panel headphone socket mis-detecting? That might be because the headers are connected to the wrong pins on the motherboard or that the BIOS is set up for the wrong headers, there is a difference between HD audio pinouts and the regular pinouts. A photo of the front panel connector and the model of the board might help figure out what's wrong.
 
dazzazzad said:
Her mobo is causing problems. Her headphone gets recognized as a mic. Keeps getting errors. So she figured a soundcard would be the solution.
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Is this an onboard Realtek audio controller? This isn't exactly rare. Try asking her to uninstall the audio drivers completely, reinstalling and perhaps clear out the registry data.

Sometimes you can unplug headphones+mic (or whatever is connected) and plug them into another port, ie: intentionally plug the headphones into the lineout slot (not headphone out) and the driver should pop up a dialog asking what you've pluged in, then plug them into the correct slot etc;

Or perhaps look at something like: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829102023
or
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829132052

Which is probably cheaper than a new motherboard.

I'd personally first try rectify the onboard audio first unless she specifically wants to use that soundcard.
 
Holy crap, how many gigs of ram does that PC have?


Damn....

Ontopic....just buy a new sound card (the one with the 2 small pins(PCI x4)) and you would be great...
 

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JUST WAIT, before you tell it that he/she needs a PCI-E Sound card.

Whoever this person's PC is. She DOES NOT HAVE to buy another sound card just yet.

The Beautiful thing about PCI-E is that she can run the GPU(AMD 5000 series card) in the 4th Slot, i.e. next PCI-E 16x Slot.
Unless the 2nd PCI-E slot is hardwired to run at 8x, the 2nd PCI-E Slot should also run at 16x.

OK now the X58 should run and she can just install the Sound card in the PCI slot hidden underneath the GPU in the picture that you provided.
 
GeOgre said:
JUST WAIT, before you tell it that he/she needs a PCI-E Sound card.

Whoever this person's PC is. She DOES NOT HAVE to buy another sound card just yet.

The Beautiful thing about PCI-E is that she can run the GPU(AMD 5000 series card) in the 4th Slot, i.e. next PCI-E 16x Slot.
Unless the 2nd PCI-E slot is hardwired to run at 8x, the 2nd PCI-E Slot should also run at 16x.

OK now the X58 should run and she can just install the Sound card in the PCI slot hidden underneath the GPU in the picture that you provided.
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The motherboard is an ASUS Sabretooth X58. It has two PCIe slots that run at x16 and one that runs at x4. The GPU is covering the PCI slot. She can move the graphics card down one slot and then plug the sound card into the PCI slot.
 
There's a decent chance that the GPU is covering the leagacy PCI slot.

There appears to be another PCIe port below it that you could move the graphics card to, if that is the case.

EDIT:
Ur.
Seems this info is already shared, never mind!
 
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