Installing a old sound card

ojrules · 17 Jun 2008 at 13:59

I've set up a PC for my parents out of old pc parts, and the mobo i've used only has 2.0 sound... while i actually have a 5.1 card lying around... It is a terratec aureon pci card, quite old, but they still sell them for about 15 pounds ... I have no experience with sound cards.. i ahve experience with pretty much everything else, but not sound cards... now there are numerous connections on the card (big wow :rolleyes:

) and i guessed that i just needed to plug the card in and away it goes.. but since it doesnt work , i'm guessing i need to plug cables in etc, am i correct?... many thanks

ojrules · 17 Jun 2008 at 14:42

hmm i've managed to get the card to be recognised, and now the drivers are installed properly, and the specific control panel is working, however still no sound, i'm guessing i need to mute onboard sound from the bios?

Ice Rich · 17 Jun 2008 at 14:51

ojrules said:
hmm i've managed to get the card to be recognised, and now the drivers are installed properly, and the specific control panel is working, however still no sound, i'm guessing i need to mute onboard sound from the bios?

Yeah, turn off on-board audio in bios - you should have done this before you installed new card. Do a windows update too - see if that picks up anything regarding drivers with the new card.

ojrules · 17 Jun 2008 at 15:01

ok thanks.. actually looking through the drivers, i'd see no real need in the card, i realised that the mobo can actually do 5.1 sound, so everythings good