Sound card and mobo sound imputs....

[Hillsdale]

if i pluged in my (green) coloured cable for my headphones into my motherboards audio... and plugged my speakers (green) cable into my sound cards audio plugs, will both my headphones and speakers play all audio?

[thideras]

if i pluged in my (green) coloured cable for my headphones into my motherboards audio... and plugged my speakers (green) cable into my sound cards audio plugs, will both my headphones and speakers play all audio?Depends on the card and mobo.

You could try it.:beer:

[shirker]

it shouldn't both work. your onboard audio chipset is disabled when you've got a separate audio card installed and utilized

[thideras]

it shouldn't. your onboard audio chipset is disabled when you've got a separate audio card installed and in useI've never had it become disabled when adding a card to it.

An example: I have a laptop and a home theatre amplifier with a usb input. When you plug the usb in, it shows both as sound cards, it does NOT disable one, it just uses the one that you specified.

[jivetrky]

No, they will not both work. Whatever is playing the sound will only route it through one of the sound devices. So either you will get sound through the card or the onboard, not both at the same time (at least not the same audio...you can play different audio at the same time to each device)


You really just need one of these:

http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10218&cs_id=1021802&p_id=667&seq=1&format=2&style=

[shirker]

I've never had it become disabled when adding a card to it.yeah I worded that quite horribly. If you got an audio card installed and in use, the other one is "disabled" in the sense that you can't use it. not disabled as in actually turned off by the system. the things poor terminology can lead to.. :-/

[smokie mcpott]

i have mine setup this way, mobo audio is used for nothing but ventrilo/teamspeak and my sound card handles the 5.1 out to the surround sound receiver, but they dont play the same audio, there are apps that will do that, but they are generally DJ software, allowing you to cue with one soundcard (headphones), and output the mix to the other soundcard

[thideras]

yeah I worded that quite horribly. If you got an audio card installed and in use, the other one is "disabled" in the sense that you can't use it. not disabled as in actually turned off by the system. the things poor terminology can lead to.. :-/Well, even technically its not disabled, you can still use it.

Here is an example that you can try. Open a music player (like Windows Media Player). Start playing music and make sure it does not stop (like have a huge playlist).

Now change the default device to the other card and start a game with sound.

What happens? Music will still come out of the first device and the game will come out of the device you switched it to :beer:

Now if you were to press stop on the media player and then play, it will use the default device (what you switched it to).

So technically you can use two sound cards, its just alot of juggling. ;)

[Hillsdale]

Is there another port that allows me to hear all the audio so that both speakers and headphones can hear all audio on one mobo or sound card

[smokie mcpott]

ya here , click on the link
You really just need one of these:

http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10218&cs_id=1021802&p_id=667&seq=1&format=2&style=

[shirker]

Well, even technically its not disabled, you can still use it.you're killing me here :(

conventionally, it's disabled in the sense that you can't use it at the same time as your audio card, for the same purpose. You can't listen to the same music from the same media player from both your audio card and onboard audio at once. happy now?

Is there another port that allows me to hear all the audio so that both speakers and headphones can hear all audio on one mobo or sound card
link has already been pasted above... you have to use one audio device, and split the signal it outputs to speakers + headphones.