Onboard sound problems

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I have an ASUS K8V SE deluxe motherboard running XP pro with on board sound that quit working. The weird part is why.

I need to run 2 sound cards in this box, so I installed an Audigy 2 PCI card along with the drivers and that is when the onboard sound quit working. My first thought was maybe the BIOS setting for onboard sound was set to auto, but upon checking that yielded only two choices, enabled or disabled. Of course it's set to enabled.

So my next task was to un-install the drivers for the onboard sound and download new drivers from ASUS's website. When I rebooted I expected XP to detect the onboard sound which it didn't, so I proceeded to install the new driver package and it failed saying it couldn't find the driver?

I'm pretty baffled on this one. I don't know anything else to try except maybe doing a system restore on it back to before I installed the new soundcard, but in the end I need them both to work and I can't understand why in effect the onboard sound "dissapeared" it seems like?

Anyone have any ideas or something else I can try?

 

[TheMostWantedPolishTwin]

did you try drivers that came with your mobo..?also, you may try flashing BIOS, if there's a new one..

 

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did you try drivers that came with your mobo..?also, you may try flashing BIOS, if there's a new one..

Yes, I tried installing the drivers that were on the install disk, but I did not update the BIOS. I don't see how a BIOS update could impact it as it was working before all this.

I really hate computers sometimes..... This has been aggravating me for a couple of days.

 

[loviotor]

Did you ever get this situation resolved. I am in the same boat. I need dual sound cards, and the onboard is automatically disabled by the bios (even if you have it set to enable) when you have a different sound card installed.