Possible to use an Audigy 2 card and enable onboard at the same time?

[simonk83]

Hi all 🙂

Ok so the situation is this. I currently use an Audigy 2 Platinum, and it's great, no problem. I have a set of Zalman Surround Headphones which are plugged into the 3 appropriate plugs at the back of the Audigy. However, I also use an RF audio/video transmitter to watch files from my PC on my TV. Part of this requires me to unplug the headphones and plug in the audio jack of the RF transmitter everytime I want to watch a show. As you can imagine, this gets annoying pretty quickly as there isn't all that much room behind my PC so I'm constantly scrabbling around trying to find the damn holes to plug into 🙂 Then when I want to play a game or whatever I have to plug in the headphones again.

So, I was wondering, would it be possible for me to enable the onboard (I have an A8n SLI premiun by the way) and leave the RF plugged into the motherboard jacks constantly and the headphones into the Audigy so I never have to swap them around? Of course, this doesn't sound like it'd work as I assume there would be conflicts and/or the system wouldn't know which sound device to use...

Any idea if this is possible? Or is there any other way around my problem?

Thanks guys 🙂

Simon

 

[PepperBreath]

It'd probably just be easier to use a splitter in your case instead of dealing with the hassle of probable conflicts.

What I'd like to know is if there's a way to somehow wire the proprietary pass through on the Audigy 2 to the standard front audio-out jacks on my case. My speakers emit an audible hum even when I'm using the headphone connection port on them. I'd be nice if I could just have the front audio-out ports work without having to enable the motherboard sound or buy that optional front panel from creative.

 

[VivienM]

Originally posted by: PepperBreath
It'd probably just be easier to use a splitter in your case instead of dealing with the hassle of probable conflicts.

The conflicts should be mostly software, though... assuming the OP can get the software side to cooperate, there shouldn't be any hardware issues...

I haven't tried dual sound cards in Windows (though onboard + add-on sound works GREAT in Linux doing the same type of thing the OP wants to do), but given how much Windows software (e.g. Winamp) lets you explicitly pick a sound card to output to, I would think it could work... The key would be to have the OS configured to use one sound card as the default (in the Control Panel, in the Windoze case), and then set specific programs to use the other.

And the splitter solution ignores one big reason behind doing this: if you have a separate sound card, you can have different sound coming out of different sources playing at the same time, and have different volume/mixer settings, etc. That was my reason, anyways 🙂

 

[Inspector Jihad]

noob alert...i just installed a SB live on my computer which has an ASUS A8V deluxe motherboard...how to I switch back to onboard sound?

 

[PING]

Can't you specify which soundcard to use by going to Sounds and Audio Devices Properties?