front panel audio and sound card?

GraveYard · 2 Dec 2011 at 16:08

can you still use the front panel audio when you have a sound card installed???

Nightglow · 2 Dec 2011 at 16:22

Usually you disable the onboard sound in the bios.
And the front panel audio cable is connected to a header on the sound card, instead of the motherboard.

One other thing, usually front panel cable has two connectors AC97 & HD Audio, use the HD Audio one.

GraveYard · 2 Dec 2011 at 16:26

ah right cool..

still learning all this...

so just disable onbaord sound,install sound card connect it up then driver it in???

is there anything else to plug into it???

nelviss · 2 Dec 2011 at 18:25

no thats all unless you have a old graphics card then you might need to hook up the s/pdif header, and if you have a tv tuner card the aux input header aswell.