- XP keep asking for disabled onboard audio drivers
- Posted by Louis on March 19th, 2008
Hello !
I'm reinstalling XP on an old PC with an ASUS A7V266-E mobo. (Flashed
to latest BIOS (1011)).
Despite setting the "OnBoard Audio" to "Disable", it keeps finding the
C-Media CMI8738 Audio Controller on boot time and asks for it's driver.
While "feeding the beast" with the appropriate driver stops it from
whining, it also enables the onboard audio jacks, which defeats the
purpose.
I want to disable it to prevent interfering with a PCI audio card.
BTW, changing PnP OS value in BIOS doesn't change anything.
Any idea ?
Thanks
- Posted by Paul on March 19th, 2008
Louis wrote:
Can you disable the device, in the Device Manager ? That
might be a workaround.
Paul
- Posted by kony on March 20th, 2008
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:13:53 -0400, Louis <Louis@nospam.com>
wrote:
As Paul suggested you should disable it in Device Manager.
However, it should not interfere with a PCI audio card even
if it isn't disabled. It is quite possible to continually
use multiple sound cards in the same system, if your
particular application doesn't allow picking which one to
use then set that one as the primary or preferred sound
device in control panel, sounds & multimedia.
- Posted by Louis on March 20th, 2008
kony a exposé le 2008-03-19 :
Thank you both for your replies..
I had to disable the onboard audio in the device manager *and*
uninstall all programs/drivers related using add/remove programs,
otherwise there is an unresponsive "Mixer" button sitting on the task
bar upon reboot.
As for leaving both audio cards, it is not my preferred solution since
the C-Media driver (at least the one availiable on Asus's site)
installs its own and sticky "Mixer" on the tray - even if I install
only the drivers using device manager - which could be confusing for
the PC's owner.
Just for my own knowledge : does it happens often that a "disabled"
onboard feature actually stays enabled ? It's the first time I see
this..
- Posted by Paul on March 20th, 2008
Louis wrote:
In Win2K, I had some trouble with the OS mediated selection of sound devices.
I tried a PCI sound card and AC'97 at the same time. I'd select my "preferred"
device in Windows, click apply or whatever, and the OS refused to remember my
selection. So like yourself, I had to ensure one was disabled, to get
satisfactory operation. Maybe WinXP works better for that, but I don't have
WinXP here.
As for the failure to disable, yes, it has happened before. And I cannot
explain why it happens either.
Paul
- Posted by Jon Danniken on March 20th, 2008
"Louis" wrote:
You can keep the mixer from loading through (Start > Run > type
"Msconfig") - enter the "startup" tab and look for the mixer entry.
Also, look in the BIOS (integrated peripherals IIRC) to see if you can
disable the onboard audio there.
Jon
- Posted by kony on March 20th, 2008
On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:03:51 -0400, Paul <nospam@needed.com>
wrote:
You could find the OS setting or shortcut that causes the
Taskbar tray app to load and disable it loading to get rid
of the icon, but as you mentioned it's for another owner and
if they don't need both audio solutions you might as well
disable the onboard and uninstall the driver.
What happens is the "driver" is actually a driver PLUS a
software frontend to control the sound settings. By
disabling it, the driver probably isn't loading anymore but
the software portion is still installed until you choose to
uninstall it.
Can't say, I use Win2k a lot and have had multiple systems
with two sound cards installed. I would suspect either an
old OS installation with some files wrong and it needs
reinstalled, or the sound driver itself had some bug.
I would wonder if disabling in bios wasn't actually a
disabling setting just not devoting resources but then when
2k/XP/etc loads it has that ability... so a bios bug in what
is really technically disabling.
