[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Disabling onboard sound.

[Steve Baker]

Ted B Dodd wrote:
> 
> On 22 Jun 2001, at 14:54, Travis Bell wrote:
> 
> > > Hmmm - there is an option in the BIOS - but it doesn't seem to actually *DO*
> > > anything...at least, I still don't get anything out of the Ensoniq no matter
> > > which way the BIOS flag is set.
> > >
> > > Argh!  This is *so* frustrating!
> >
> > Are you sure the two sound cards are conflicting and it's not the Ensoniq
> > conflicting with a different device?  Also, try putting the Ensoniq in a
> > different slot.  I had a PC in which my sound card (also an Ensoniq come to
> > think of it) and my NIC would only work in one particular configuration of
> > where they were put.
> 
> I apologize for my ignorance and confusion.  If it is an
> Ensoniq, is that not a board?  I was unware that there existed
> an on-board Ensoniq product.  If it is a separate board, why
> not just remove it?

No,no,no - the *motherboard* is a Soyo SY-7VCA with some kind of no-name
on-board sound chip.  I want to DISABLE that so that I can use the
Ensoniq board which I had working just fine in my older motherboard - but
which is no longer working in the new motherboard.

I *doubt* that it's a conflict between other boards and the Ensoniq because
all I did to upgrade this PC was to swap out the motherboard and CPU.  All
the peripheral cards are exactly the same as before.

I hadn't thought of swapping PCI slots - I thought PC's were free of those
issues these days.  Wasn't that a purely ISA-bus issue?

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