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Old 28-03-2005, 22:21   #215
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Re: Building my own PC
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Originally Posted by zinglebarb
in that case in the unlikely event the pc wont boot just unplug audigy and plug speakers into onboard sound
No need to unplug the Audigy. Just plug the speaker connection into the Line output socket on the back of the motherboard (usually a green 3.5 millimetre socket) and enable the onboard sound on the Bios.

As with King Phoenix, I have never encountered a motherboard where you have to disable the onboard sound for a PCI sound card to work. There is no reason for it to work like that. The only reason that it happens with onboard video and AGP video cards is that the motherboard chipset does not have enough bandwidth to activate both at the same time. According to Intel anyway. Sound, working using PCI, does NOT have the same problem.

Even if Ramrod leaves the onboard sound enabled, it'll just show up in Windows as a second sound card.
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