my onboard sound card died so I plugged in a Crystal Soundfusion CS4281 card,  can it work w/ Realtek AC97?
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There should not be any problems. Your main board Bios should automatically detect the sound card and shut off the on-board sound chips.\n\nJust in case your system is not too "intelligent" you may want to go into the Bios settings and see if you need to turn off the on-board sound chip.
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I don't know the exact sound card but it is a sound blaster pro comatible one. First thing to try is installing Sound Balster pro drivers which are included with windows. They should work fine.\n\nIf not, go to windows.update.com and scan your pc for updates to windows. It will usually detect any available driver updates to well known hardware also. There's a good chance it will detect your soundcard and suggest drivers. This will be in the optional installation section.\nGood luck!
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maybe try removing the drivers for your old sound card.
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Use your soundcard CD. Simply insert and install. if you dont have CD then use www.driversguide.com for driver download. Or YOu can use Add/Remove Hardware and search for the best drivers in your system if it ws already installed.
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Go to Control Panel, system, Hardware, Device Manager, look for the sound manager, if it has a cross against it, open it and go to reinstall/update drivers, it will ask for the driver disk, if yours is a standard one, use the cd supplied with the motherboard to re-intall the sound card.\nOtherwise do a search on the net for the card makers site and download the applicable drivers.
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Reinstall the driver.  If this doesn't work, open the computer and remove the soundcard from it's port.  This is assuming that it goes tinto an expansion port such as PCI or PCI express.  If it's integrated (built into the motherboard), then you'll need to figure out the model and make of your card (try running DxDiag)and download the drivers.  \n\nThen right-click my computer, and select properties.  Go to the tab called devices and select device manager.  From here, remove the sound card and its drivers and then reboot the system.  Once the system has turned back on reinstall the drivers which you should have downloaded.\n\nHope this helps
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Goto the link I provided and click Start Detection in the center of the page.  It will detect your system.  Then get the latest drivers for you sound then install them.\n\n- Check hardware profiles under System in control panel and be sure its not disabled.\n\n- Check your bios to make sure its not turned off.\n\nIts probably integrated but if its not then take the side of the system and check to be sure its seated correctly in its slot.\n\nIf these do not work, restore the system.\n\nIf none work, sound card may be bad.
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If you are using Internal Audio, there would be 3 ports at the back ( Sound input and output ports) just below the USB ports. And if its way below like below the AGP card. Then You use a Sound a sound card.\n\nAnyway you will need a Creative Audigy 2 ZS Video Editor to the stuff you wanna do.
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I usually go to http://www.soundcard-drivers.com or you can try http://www.driverguide.com
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Do the following( if you have a good grasp of computer things!\nGo to control panel. Then system. click on device manager look for your sound card and uninstall it.\nReboot your computer and it will install the sound card again, by telling you"found new hardware-follow the prompts and let the system select the drivers and this should work.\n\nBefore doing all this go to control panel and click on sounds/audio devices and check the speaker setting!
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probably not, they are 2 different companies, the best and safest thing to do is just get a SoundBlaster Audigy sound card. They arn't that expensive
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First check your speakers by plugging a known portable player to the input of the speakers and see if you have sound.  But be sure that you have the power supply turned on and connected to the speakers.  If you have sound then you can work to the sound card.  By that I mean be sure that your comnection from the speakers is in the proper input on the back of the computer and the connections are tight. (Which is labeled speakers). Or a symble of a speaker indicating the audio output.  If that don't help you may have to go into your bios setup and check that the audio codek is checked properly.  To go into the bios you may have to at boot up wait till you hear the first beep and hit the delete key and wait till the cmoss screen comes up then you can look through the settings and then determine what to do.  But be carefull ,  You may wan't to mark down anything that you change what it was before you changed it and to what you changed it to so that you can return it to its orginal spot if it dosen't work.  Hint most audio drivers are of the AC97 codek, Hope this helps.
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Try this one first, it covers the 8738 and 9738 onboard CMI (c-media) solutions which are common on many mainboards that have the onboard CMI AC97 codec.\n\nhttp://www.softwarepatch.com/utilities/cmedia-9738.html\n\nAlternatively you can try some of the onboard CMI codecs from here if that doesn't work.\n\nhttp://www.ecsusa.com/downloads/drivers_sound.html\n\nBe very sure though that you actually have a c-media based controller - you might not. Look on your motherboard if you can at the actual chip it might be a Realtek chip - better yet download Everest Home edition (google it) and run that and it will tell you exactly what onboard codec you have (example 8738-9739-9338 etc..) and you can go from there. If you find out you have a realtek AC97 chip you would go directly to the realtek site to download it. If you have a VIA based AC97 chip you would go to viaarena to download it.
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Hey fellow\n\nMy c-media sound card keeps tormenting me as your device is doing to you..\n\nI keep trying and trying ... clean the PCI interface then change it between another pci cards .. I.E. switch the one you put in your modem with the one you put your audio device...\n\nTry to clean the copper pins on the audio device by a pencil (rubber) eraser .. i don't know exactly what it does but it works for me...\n\nThen switch your computer and at the boot .. you should recognize the identified card as multimedia device ... it won't work in windows unless you see it at the boot time...\n\nGood luck\n\nCheers
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If you have an intergrated sound card and you install your own sound card the first thing you have to do is :\nEnter System setup with F2, Del or whatever keys you have to hit\n\nLook for in the COMOS:\nOnboard sound or Intergrated AC97: Enable (Disable)\n\nYou have to disable your onboard sound so your computer can run the other sound card instead. A computer can not run 2 sound card at once, it will use the default one. (intergrated)
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hey man there should be some problem in installing windows or sound card driver insert windows cd and try to go to problem.or ither go XEAR 3D audio which is driver for it.
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Sound cards aren't downloadable - that's hardware. The drivers are another story. If you you know what make of soundcard you have you can do a search to see if it is available or check with a technician at any reputable computer store, Ie. Compusmart. etc.