Disable my Soundcard?

[Justoman]

I've got 2 of'em. Because of that, a lot games crash on me.
Someone said there's a way to disable this in the BIOS.

What do I look for?
Any help is appreciated.

 

[Shakie]

Yep, usaually there is an option to disable onboard sound. Get into your BIOS and I am sure you will see it.

 

[neb1211]

is your computer made by like a major computer manufacturer. If it is then it most likely won't have a option in the bios cuz the manufacturer wants you to have to go out and buy a new computer in order for you to upgrade you system.

 

[Ecniv]

I dont know where you heard that. Any computermanufacturer that uses onboard equipment is required to have the option to disable it so that the consumer has the ability to upgrade.

 

[þÄ®âÐÖx]

Hehe... not true. My sister's packard bell motherboard has onboard video and there is NO way to disable it.

 

[Ecniv]

I bet you there is..... At very least a jumper or something.

Well, if there are any PCI slots at least.

Computers without upgrade slots are not required to let you disable the onboard stuff.

 

[Justoman]

Figured it out thanks to you guys.

Cheers!

 

[þÄ®âÐÖx]

Well it certainly SHOULD be that way, but this was a really weird setup.. totally jumperless, two PCI slots, and NO way to disable the onboard video. I literally searched that thing for an hour looking for a jumper or something, but no such luck. According to a post I found on a forum, it was supposed to disable the onboard automatically when you put a PCI video card in the top slot, but I tried that with 3 different cards and it didn't work.

 

[neb1211]

yeah i had the same problem with my 2 year old hp

 

[sPlAtOiD]

on board sound

What about divice mgr. And just disabling the sound from there.Ive done it a hundred times.