Enabling onboard sound

[hello people]

Hi,

I just installed a second computer with a Asus A8V s939 MoBo. I installed Windows and was asked if I wanted to install onboard audio. I said no, as I have an old (working) SBlive.

Anyway, XP won't recognise the SBlive and it will not enable onboard sound for me. The device manager is always greyed out and says that there is no audio device. I can't change this despite looking in BIOS for "enable onboard sound"

From what I've said, can anyone help? Do I have to change a jumper or something? The MoBo manual is hazy on this.

thanks

[katzdvd]

Do you have the driver disc for the SBlive card? If you install the drivers, XP should see the card & display it in the Dev. manager.

I used a very old SB live card for awhile, that I didn't have updated xp drivers for; windows complained during install, but it still worked out okay.

If that fails, you may want to enable the onboard sound & just go with that. (by installing the sound drivers from the mobo cd)

regards, katz

[hello people]

How embarrasing...I just realised I hadn't installed the onboard drivers from the mobo disc. It was the disc, not Windows asking me if I wanted to install onboard sound.

thanks

[Chewy]

asus a8v onboard is fine, but can be disabled in bios

sb live drivers may have gotten it together with sp2 and xp but creative still has special drivers for xp

durn cards seem real particular about which pci slot tho?