p3n5t3r Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 So as some of you may have read I have some problems with left channel audio from my onboard ALC861. Luckily I also own an USB creative MP3 sound card. It works superb, but in order not to have to change my speakers plug every time I boot windows or mac I connected the speakers to both cards with a Y cable. But that does not solve my problem cause Mac OS still sends out the signal through the onboard HD Audio card. I set it to mute in the MIDI app and selected the usb card as default but that did not help I still get the high static sound and cracking audio on the left channel. If I plug the speakers only into the USB card the sound is nearly superb! All I am looking for is a way to disable HDAudio altogether in mac os, as mine only causes trouble. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7881-help-me-disable-onboard-audio-card-in-mac-os/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callysto Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 Disabling it in your computers BIOS should have done the trick it sound like more of a hardware issue than anything else Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7881-help-me-disable-onboard-audio-card-in-mac-os/#findComment-49523 Share on other sites More sharing options...
p3n5t3r Posted January 28, 2006 Author Share Posted January 28, 2006 Well if I disable it in bios, I have to enable it every time I boot, that is similar to changing speakers output. If it was a hardware issue, why does it work in windows? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7881-help-me-disable-onboard-audio-card-in-mac-os/#findComment-49664 Share on other sites More sharing options...
supermegatron Posted January 28, 2006 Share Posted January 28, 2006 just delete the appleac97.kext Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7881-help-me-disable-onboard-audio-card-in-mac-os/#findComment-49827 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjduro Posted July 6, 2007 Share Posted July 6, 2007 just delete the appleac97.kext what we need is a good working solution for alc861. Not a lousy solution like having an external usb soundcard on a laptop!!!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7881-help-me-disable-onboard-audio-card-in-mac-os/#findComment-402692 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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