Maybe a little off topic but ever since I had a four channel DVR card
installed in a PCI slot to try out, I have not been able to get Win XP Pro
to let me use ANY sound cards, i.e., no sound output. I have a built-in card
on my MB plus a PCI Turtle Beach Santa Cruz and no matter what I try, I
can't get one to work even though they show up in the hardware section in
control panel/sounds and in device manager. The only sound devices that show
up are the modem outputs. I'm not exactly a novice and this has really
gotten me perplexed. I'm to the point where I'm thinking of re-installing
everything from a fresh format to start over as this has been going on for
some time now. Does anyone here have any idea what to try? Thanks for any
advice. Joe in Texas...

I have not been able to get Win XP Pro
to let me use ANY sound cards, i.e., no sound output. . Does anyone here
have any idea what to try? Thanks for any
advice. Joe in Texas...

Could you try something like the Creative Labs USB Soundblaster - they are
pretty cheap at Walmart, I think. They work in XP without adding any
drivers.

"JW" <jweb@swbell.net> wrote in
news:cqijg.49353$Lm5.22557@newssvr12.news.prodigy. com:

Disable the onboard sound in BIOS.
Put the DVR in a different slot. Also make sure you have the latest
version of the drivers for the DVR and the TBSC.
ftp://ftp.voyetra.com/pub/tbs/santacru/sc_4193.exe

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fred

I've removed the DVR months ago, tried the onboard sound on/off, installed
the latest TPSC and AC97 (onboard) drivers. Still the hardware shows up with
no conflicts but not as one of my choices for sound. I even tried to
uninstall anything I thought the DVR may have used but, windows says some of
them are needed. Like I said, this is driving me nuts.

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