need advice for upgradin stuff (soundcard)

[vincenzo_og]

So here 's the beef:

i gots my new soundcard yeterday (SBlive 5.1) any good?
I tried to instal it. I opened up le PeeSee and found that my previous soundcard is just part of the main board and cannot be remmoved so i just attached the new card to the PCI slot and connected the CD-rom lead.

I then started the computer and it auto-detected and installed the drivers.
I then restarted and the computer gets to my password screen and crashes!
so i safe-moded and removed all the old drivers and software and it restarted and auto-installed the old drivers back in....WTF do I do!!

[Lord_Bunker]

get out your motherboard manual, there should be a jumper you can change to disable the onboard sound card

this also belongs in troubleshooting, consider it moved.

[Tommy Atkins]

Oi! Vin! Thought you'd of been better off going & getting a new modem rather than the one you've got now... ph43r his 500+ ping :D

[vincenzo_og]

LOL....
... I got my PC as a big box set wiht all the bumf and it doesn't have any proper manuals just a st00pid "here is the mouse" type o instruction book,

Lord Bunker?
a) are u sure... the description of Troubleshootin forum says it has to be about INF, and off topic is anythin outside INF.

2) i fit in number 4 :D

[Tommy Atkins]

To either ring the PC seller for the info (may take quite some time if you bought it from PC World or Tiny) or open the casing, take a look around for manufacturers' names and part numbers, then do a quick search on Google or somewhere similar for their websites. Or do another search on installing SBLive cards...

[vincenzo_og]

*roger that*

i'll just take a look around inside again...also just for my reference, wots a jumper when talkin about PC chip boards/sets...what would one o them look like?

[Lord_Bunker]

a jumper looks like a very tiny little plastic rectangle slide over 2 very small little prongs. the only way you'll find the right one is if you have a manual for your motherboard. if you got a dell or something then hopefully it came with a manual of somekind.

there could also possibly be a bios setting for it, but most likely there's a jumper.

[vincenzo_og]

oh oh oh it's magic...
thx guys i got it to work,
who would have though that to dis-engage an Integrated Peripheral you would have to go to the Integrated peripheral sevtion of ur Bios setup, well, not me apparently.


So now i've got EAX and it is downright great...and also a little weird....but thats for the off-topic forum (where i think this should've been in the first place:D)
ok did i say thanx?...yes...ok...well...thx again.

god night and good bless

(pffffhahahahaahahahahhahah...im so funny.....erm.......sorry)