How do i disable the onboard sound if my motherbord has a built in sound card???
964559
If you access your computer's BIOS, you can disable the onboard sound.  You get to the BIOS by pressing a key when your computer first starts - usually either the del key or one of the F-keys, look for a message that says "Press <something> to enter BIOS Setup".\n\nAlternatively, if you get a sound card, installing that will automatically override your computer's onboard sound.
567954
get the chipset. go to driverhq. it will automaticlly detect your chipset. go to devices manager, clik the sound driver, and then rool back the driver. restart your pc.
847517
try changing your default Audio output device in \n"Sounds and audio devices".
251128
first can you find out if the sound card is listed in devices in the control panel\nif it is it say that it has any problem's\nif it has no problems with it do you have software installed to say run music and sound facilities\n\nTry some of these and then pose us back a question with some more detail and I will try to help further
1051682
The best way would be to get a pcmcia sound card. being a dell it SHOULD have a pcmcia card slot (not guaranteed). Many of these cards have line-in with hardware noise filtering. Check out cards by Creative Labs.
378912
check for the drivers of audio installation in your computer ,you should have a motherboard cd for the same.
949448
Make sure you are logged in as an administrator.\nThen go to Driverguide.com, you will need to register, but if you cant find your driver on there.. you wont find it anywhere.\n\nIf you have already downloaded the files (extracted all zip files).. Go into settings control panel, system, hardware, devicemanager.. then right click on the offending sound device.. and click update driver.. if it doesnt do it automatically, point it manually (brows for location) and see if it installs the drivers for you. Do you know what kind of mother board you have.. post it on here and someone might be able to give you an exact link to the drivers you need- since it seems your sound card is built in on the mother board.
556551
Some times windows won't install the drivers or at least the proper drivers for hardware devices. First off, make sure your speaker jacks are plugged in correctly and your speaker power is on. Look down in the bottom right corner of your windows desktop and see if you have a little speaker icon next to the time, if its there check the volume its already installed. However, if that don't work find out if you have on board sound(built into the motherboard) or do you have a separate sound card? because you may have inadvertently turned off the onboard sound in your bios. in which case you'll need to access bios by hitting the delete button or f10 at the start of your boot up process. You'll need to make sure somewhere in there that the onboard sound or legacy is enabled. Once your in windows put the in the cd that came with you motherboard in and install all drivers on it.....sound is one of them. that should do it....if not you can always e-mail me....I'd be glad to help.
739723
Go into Control Panel, System, Hardware Tab, Device Manager Button.\n\nClick the plus sign next to sound, video, and game controllers.\n\nDelete your sound card from the list. There are probably other soundblaster related items here, you could just delete them all.\n\nSome devices require you to install the drivers first, you might want to do this again before reboot if this was the way you originally installed it, otherwise, just reboot and you will either be able to install the drivers later, or it will already have them.\n\nThe computer will go through the new hardware found process and allow a fresh start with that piece of hardware.
512968
It's most likly the sound card drivers...Have her go to the manufactures site who made the computer and look for download drivers /software
916025
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.
359642
maybe try removing the drivers for your old sound card.
54897
Check your sound card software.if you are using intel motherboard then "soundmax" may be the culprit.
435686
You will probably need the driver CD that came with either the sound card - motherboard if integral, or CD pack if a store bought made up system.\n\nDelete it from CONTROL PANEL- SYSTEM - Hardware, then reboot and have the CD ready when it says 'Found New Hardware'\n\nIf you haven't got it, message me with make and model of sound card
1084829
I would recommend moving the sound card to a different PCI slot, move it at least 1 away from another PCI component that is installed. Another thing is that it could be the driver, loading the new card is one thing but have you gone to the creative website to download the latest drivers. One thing I like to do is I like to max out all my sound on the PC then I use the speaker volume to control the volume of the system.
835825
The fact that you say it is a realtek sound card tells me that it is an integrated sound controller built into the motherboard..  You need to go to the motherboard makers website and download the appropriate drivers.  Their may have been a compatibility issue between the old drivers and sp2.  \n\nIf you don't know the motherboard make and model (often printed on the surface of the motherboard) you can use the bios number that is displayed on the first screen of boot up to track it down.
1006177
You're going to slap me for suggesting it, but check the following first:\n\n1. Go to the control panel, check sound.  Is it muted?  Is anything muted?\n2. Double check that the speaker is in the correct port, and not going through another device (speaker/headset splitter, etc) first.\n3. Make sure the card is seated properly.\n\nOnce you've done these, go to the control panel, then system, then hardware, then device manager and make sure the computer knows the card is present and installed.  Make sure it thinks it's running.\n\nGood luck.