Sound Card causing sound cut - new one / questions?

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Nesa

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Hello,

Alright, my sound works just fine when I am on my computer normally, playing music etc.

This is where the problem develops, when playing games (DOD and BF2), after a period of time (let's say 5 minutes) my sound just cuts out.

It's definately not my speakers and I am aware that it is indeed my soundcard. I also can't even use a microphone with my card, it just doesn't pick it up.

Anyway this is my setup:

300W Case
CD-Rom Drive
Powercolor 9600XT 128mb Graphics Card
80GB Hard drive
Asus Mainboard - P4P800 Deluxe
256MB Ram
Intel CPU P4 3.0 GM Prescott - 1MB Cache, 800FSB
LG Monitor
Keyboard
Networkd Card etc....

My comp isn't too old, got it in September, 2004.

Basically looking at that am I correct saying that I have onboard sound?

So, i'm looking for a card good enough to not cut out when my sound options are on high in games and can take a microphone.

Not looking at spending too much, but would this be alright;

http://www.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=1&subcategory=205&product=14189

Also I have logitech Z-640 Speakers would they be alright with that soundcard?

If you haven't realised already, I'm not that good at the hardware side of computers but I really do need your advice.

If I do purchase a new sound card, would the on-board one be removed or would the new card just slot in and that's it?

Thankyou :)
 
That sound card will be just fine with any speakers.

When installing the new card you should first uninstall the onboard sound chips drivers, then turn off the computer and put the sound card in the PCI slot. Make sure it's there correctly and boot up and install the new drivers.

If you don't uninstall the old drivers first, your new sound card might get damaged.
 
When installing the new card you should first uninstall the onboard sound chips drivers, then turn off the computer and put the sound card in the PCI slot. Make sure it's there correctly and boot up and install the new drivers.

If you don't uninstall the old drivers first, your new sound card might get damaged.
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thats not strictly true... with onboard sound it is usually controlled by the BIOS, you should go into the BIOS and disable the onboard sound, if it is still enabled then windows will keep detecting it as uninstalled hardware....

So first disable the onboard audio in your BIOS, dont worry about uninstalling drivers, if the device is disabled it wont be recognised by windows. next power down the PC completely, install the new sound card into a spare PCI slot, boot up into windows and it should be straight forward from there, follow the prompts, install the drivers... done

just remeber to plug the speakers into the new crd and not the onboard sound any more...

dragon
 
Alright, well the soundcard is great! :)

thanks everyone for your help again

now my next question...

I've got a microphone probably about 4-5 years old

Looking for any installation/drivers for it...

here's a pic of it , it's a Creative microphone :D

Thanks
 
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