Hi, as I said depends on the board. In your case as I said in another message it is a good thing your system is configured this way use one = for windows sounds and use the other for speech. On board for speech I = would think. It really works well in this configuration. =20 -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On = Behalf Of Gene Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 4:20 AM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Two sound cards Every time I talked to a hardware support dept about this they stated = that=20 the installation of a third party card would automatically shut down the = on=20 board and disable it. Gene ----- Original Message -----=20 From: "Ricque" <ricque@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 7:03 AM Subject: Re: Two sound cards > Hi Gene, > Why would the on-board soundcard not be active? > Unless you disable it, it should still work no matter how many other=20 > soundcards you have installed, provided you have the IRQ's to support=20 > them. Ricque > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gene" <guystevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 2:40 AM > Subject: Two sound cards > > > Interesting development... I have a Sony desktop with a Creative=20 > Audigy > SP2 > sound card. The interesting thing is that the original on board sound = card > is still completely active. I thought that wasn't supposed to happen. = Has > anyone else found this? > > Gene > > > > > -- > To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To=20 > unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to=20 > jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject=20 > line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw > > If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list,=20 > or > the > way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather = contact=20 > the > list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > -- > To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To=20 > unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to=20 > jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject=20 > line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw > > If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list,=20 > or > the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather=20 > contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >=20 -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or = the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact = the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx