posted 08-14- 07:34 AM               

You should be able to disable your onboard sound--which is most likely permanently attached to your motherboard--in the BIOS.
I'm not sure if all onboard sound chips can be disabled this way though (having not enough experience to be anything but dangerous when it comes to these things)--some onboard sound chips may have to be disabled by moving some dip switches or jumper settings on the motherboard itself --which you can find in your motherboard's manual (which I hope you have). As I said though--I'm not sure if it's that way for all motherboards--and mine was easily disabled in the BIOS.

You simply hold the delete key just after or while you are getting the memory tested at boot up and you enter the scary world of the BIOS. It's really not too scary -but might be too someone that's not been there before. Just be careful that you read the instructions for navigating and exiting inside your BIOS (which will be located somewhere -usually at the bottom- on your screen). Especially be careful that if you've accidentally changed something in the BIOS settings that when you exit--and you aren't sure what was changed--just don't "save" your changes-simply exit without saving and then reenter and try again. When you've made your changes inside the BIOS--and your are sure they are correct--make sure you exit and "save" them.

You don't say what kind of motherboard you have--but on my ASUS motherboard--you simply go into BIOS and use your arrow keys to cycle over to the ADVANCED menu and then go down to "Onboard Peripheral Resource Control" and open that up with the enter key.
Inside you can disable your Onboard Audio Controller.
(Now that I think about it--you may have to move a jumper setting on your motherboard AND go into BIOS to disable this--not a big deal as long as you have the motherboard manual --or can get it from the fellow that upgraded you).

Just install that old soundcard and install the software and drivers for it and off you go.

Good luck--hope this helps.

AQ

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posted 08-16- 07:31 PM               

Arthur has said what to do, but I'll outline the basics from my perspective (I've used atleast 3 boards with onboardsound that I've disabled)

Go into your BIOS by pressing the Delete Key (usualy). Ofeentimes it will tell you at the bottom of the screen when to do this, but if not, do it as your BIOS is detecting/Displaying your HD info right after switching on.

Once in the BIOS, use your cursor keys to navigate, often you'll find the soundcard in your Advanced setting, or Peripheral setting, but eitherway, you can look though all the groups till you find it.

Once found you will have the option to disable it by moving the highlighted bar over the option and hitting the numpad + or - until it says Disabled.

Once youve done that, hit F10 and save the BIOS and exit, the system will now boot up with no sound.

You can now close down your system and fit your old soundcard and go through the usual setup for it.

Hope this helps, if you have any problems you can mail me direct.