Using two sound cards??? is this poss

[Fingers]

I have a MSI 815 pro with intel chip set.

I have had the onboard sound disabled, but now I would like to use the on board sound as well as my SB 128 pci card.

Is this poss?

If it is poss will it drain resorces from my MB and slow my comp?

 

[marty]

Why do you want two sound cards? You might be able to accomplish what you want by splitting the audio with a Y connection at the audio jack.

 

[bdf24]

from experience if you enable that onboard sound card you could run into problems. But I would be willing to bet that if you configured everything ok you could get it to work.

But like marty said all you need to do is run a y splitter on your soundcard.

I run 2 modems in my pc. Seeing as they dont have cable internet by me yet. I am stuck using a 56k modem. I run one call waiting modem which is a winmodem and really sucks for gaming. and I have a 56k usr for gaming. So I switch back and forth between the two. It works great.

 

[marty]

After reading this post and a few others I realized that I might have two sound cards installed. I have the SA6 from Abit which also has Intel's 815 chipset. I didn't disable the audio when I finally got all the devices running correctly. I didn't have the speakers plugged into the on board slots so I am not sure if the audio was actually working there.

I decided to disable the on board audio and all is still well. It disappeared from the device manager on its own!!

 

[Fingers]

I seem to have the 2 cards working ok, I use the comp for alot of recording (midi and audio at the same time)

This seems to be working fine.

But !!

Will having the onboard sound enabled drain the resorces from my MB and slow the comp?

I think it will do, but as to how much.

This is the million dollar question.