xSuRgEx Posted September 7, 2005 Share Posted September 7, 2005 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prot Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xSuRgEx Posted September 8, 2005 Author Share Posted September 8, 2005 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 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam0r Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 I THINK (I'm not too sure) that some boards automaticly disable the onboard sound if you use a PCI sound card. Although don't quote me on that, because I'm not 100% sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xSuRgEx Posted September 9, 2005 Author Share Posted September 9, 2005 i can enable it in the bios. and windows xp sees its there but iam unable to start the device. i will try later and take out my PCI sound card. and see if osx sees the onbord sound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
self0 Posted September 11, 2005 Share Posted September 11, 2005 I have the same question, because I have a pci sound blaster live and the onboard sound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xSuRgEx Posted September 11, 2005 Author Share Posted September 11, 2005 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, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogbert Posted September 12, 2005 Share Posted September 12, 2005 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. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> 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). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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