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Two Sound Cards
Name: Chebwa Date: September 15, 2005 at 07:56:35 Pacific OS: Windows XP Pro CPU/Ram: 2.8GHZ / 512MB
Comment:
Hey, I have onboard sound and a sound card both installed. I'd like to output the same signal to both. How can I do this?
Name: Chebwa Date: September 15, 2005 at 09:34:36 Pacific
Reply:
And if I install 2 PCI sound cards?
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Response Number 3
Name: Chebwa Date: September 15, 2005 at 09:36:35 Pacific
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Oh, and the on board sound is the only one outputting sound, not the PCI card (which is installed and updated properly).
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Response Number 4
Name: johnr Date: September 15, 2005 at 09:50:06 Pacific
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The on-board sound usually has to be disabled manually in the BIOS if you're using a PCI card. If you try running both you'll find you either end up with conflicts because they are both trying to access the system at the same time, or one is just ignored.
What are you trying to achieve from having two cards? - if it's extra outputs then a cheap external amplifier might be more what you're looking for.
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Response Number 5
Name: Kurt S Date: September 15, 2005 at 11:18:16 Pacific
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You can run 2 PCI sound cards just fine. We used to do this as a cheap means for multitrack recording before the price of multitrack cards were reasonable.
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