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Is it possable to use my onboard sound card thats

DirectSound AC'97 2.2 audio

 

here is the mb spec

 

http://support.packardbell.com/nl/mypc/?Pi...ipper_imediavl#

 

for osx86 yes i know its an old rather ****y board but its working with 0sx86

and a celleron 2.2ghz and 256mb ram.

 

and still leave in my creative soundblaster audigy1 for my windows xp install,

 

or would i get errors in xp for trying to use 2 seprate soundcards. ?

 

thanks :unsure:

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i didn't know these people still made computers or even existed for that matter.

 

i don't believe the chipset is supported. even more so, SiS chipsets, like mine, don't like to play well (at all) with osx86.

 

your ethernet is also not supported

 

256MB RAM will give you a 'blah' experience anyways...

 

so please... keep out!!! :(

 

EDIT:

 

ethernet might work, not sure

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well i my MB dosnt seem to have the port for the LAN

its an old version of the board V1.0 , i have a seprate Intel NIC that works fine with osx86. i do need more ram as osx86 is a bit slooooow lol :blink:

 

as it says in bender12's guide. some SIS chipsets work with osx86 mine seems to but i cant get sound working. its enabled in the bios. or would i need to take out my Soundblaster audigy to make it work properly?

 

any help with getting the sound to work would be great.

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soundblaser cards are not going to work with OSX86 as their are no drivers for osx86.

 

some motherboards allow you to use bouth onboard and PCI sounds cards at the same time.

 

self0 take out your soundblaster live and see if osx86 sees your onboard sound.

 

your onboard sond card must have full support for AC97. dont confuse this with AC3. as they are 2 totaly different devices.

 

AC97 is codec based decoder even tho its a chip on the board and AC3 is a hardware decoder.

 

hope that helps,

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some motherboards allow you to use bouth onboard and PCI sounds cards at the same time.

 

in fact, the vast majority of motherboards allow to run a PCI and AC97 device simultaneously. there are settings in the BIOS which activate / deactivate the AC97 stuff.

 

AC97 is codec based decoder even tho its a chip on the board and AC3 is a hardware decoder.

 

no. AC3 is just a format specification for multichannel audio streams - the actual implementation can be software or hardware-based.

 

 

xSuRgEx, your SiS AC97 stuff won't work, cause the AC97 implementation of most (if not all) SiS chipsets doesn't conform to the AC97 standard (which has been discussed already btw, and it's in the wiki, so shame on you for not looking).

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