Can a onboard sound card exist w/a sound card?

I have Audio for VIA AC97 listed in the device manager. And I have a sound card in the slot.

NO sound. All the controls are enabled. Volume icon in the systray. But when I put in a CD, no sound. The DC player plays, but NO sound.

Trying to figure out why no sound.

Checked the BIOS and everything seems Okay.

Any suggestions would be helpful.

 

Yes, it can. If the onboard is disabled in the BIOS.
Do you have the connecting wire [red/black] from the CD to the sound card? IF you have two CD drives, go into Control Panel\Multimedia, click on CD Music tab, check the Default drive letter for the CD you want to play Audio CD's.

 

No sound from online music site

I'm at a music site and the video is still-picture motion vs. motion picture motion and there is no sound.

Went to MM CD Music tab, D drive is the default. Also checked -- enable digital CD for this CD ROM device.

No sound.

Diagnosis: Dead sound card.

 

If the digital out box is checked, doesn't the wire connecting the device to the sound port{either on a sound cvard or the mb if the sound is onboard} have to be switched to digital out position? I have a VIA 97 enhanced audio chip as my sound device with a CDrom and a CDrw {no sound card installed} Why the sound card? Do you have sound when you remove it?

 

Good question

The speaker connects to the sound card and the CD / DVD, that's why the sound card.
If I had inbuilt speakers, don't think I would need the outer speakers.

I tried both ways: disable onboard audio; no sound.
Then I enabled audio; no sound.
Changed sound card from Cirrus Logic to Mad Dog, same thing, no sound.
Wizard tries to find hardware/setup hardware and it fails.
The only conflict seems to be the ? Other Devices ? PCI MM Audio Device in the "list devices" list.

 

That is your PCI sound card, the one you are trying to install. Double click the entry and see if there is an Error Code, or a message for you. If not a driver problem, maybe an unavailable IRQ?

 

If you've got onboard sound, there should be a place on the MB to connect the audio wire from the device to the intergrated audio. Look for it, it's labled cdaudio and it's 4 little pins [sometimes surrounded by a little white box which requires a different type of plug].

If the other device is the pci card you're trying to install listen to the super geek and check it out.
good luck

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