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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: Maverick on February 03, 2003, 12:54:57 PM
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Hi there,
I recently changed mobo and upgraded to an AMD Thoroughbred 1.4 gig 1700 chip. The mobo has onboard sound but no joystick port. I am still using my CH fighterpro and would like to keep it. I used jumpers to disable onboard sound. Now on a couple games I get obvious sound conflicts. here is my question
Is it possible to enable onboard sound and still keep my SB card insatalled to use the game port? Is there a controler cards strictly for joysticks out there anymore?
In short whut should I do here and please kpp in mind money is EXTREMEMLY short right now. I wouldn't have upgraded except for a meltdown of my system. :(
Thanks in advance
Mav
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What kind of 'sound conflicts' are you getting? You might want to go into your device manager and look to see if any audio components of the onboard sound are still being listed. If so, you can disable them from there via software as well. That would let you use your SB for both audio and gameport.
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Originally posted by Chairboy
What kind of 'sound conflicts' are you getting? You might want to go into your device manager and look to see if any audio components of the onboard sound are still being listed. If so, you can disable them from there via software as well. That would let you use your SB for both audio and gameport.
I did check thre and no conflicts are showing. I get a bad stutter and faltering in the sound as well as the game play in one program.
Still scratching my head on it. Since the hesitations ONLY happen when I hear sound stuttering I came to the conclusion it is sound card related. I am still trying out other programs to find the problem.
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Try turning sound acceleration down by a notch or two.
Usually that's under control panel -> sounds -> audio tab -> advanced button for the playback device.
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No, I didn't say check in the device manager for conflicts, I said go there and DISABLE the onboard sound device! Under Sound, Video & Game Controllers, identify which items belong to your soundblaster and identify which items belong to your onboard sound. For any items still showing up that are from your motherboard onboard sound, open them and select 'Do not use this device (disable)'.
If you have anything showing up in that list that has AC97 in the name, for instance, it's probably the onboard sound.
Remember, y'all can do more in the device manager then just give a cursory check for conflict icons. :D
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Chairboy,
I didn't see anything there other than the soundblaster stuff but I'll go back and take a better look. Thanks
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Originally posted by Maverick
Is it possible to enable onboard sound and still keep my SB card insatalled
Yes, at one stage during my stick woes I had a TM FLCS, TQS, RCS on one port, a CH FS Pro, Pro Pedals, and Throttle on the other port, and an X45 setup on the USB port.
But, you really need to be running XP to do it. Any other O/S barfs at multiple sound cards/gameports.
Oh, and the cool thing I used to do before vox got incorporated and we still used RW, was have RW use one sound card and AH use the other. I would have AH cranked up thru a Prologic Stereo and vox thru my headset. Way cool (except for the wife thingy)
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moved to new thread.