Next stage in the hardware saga

[drwex]

Thanks to an assist from caulay I got the card (ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP 512MB) plugged in and running. And my sound went away.

Why, you are asking yourself, is a video card taking over my sound? Well apparently the card has some kind of audio output. When I open up the Windows audio panel, it claims to be using "ATI Audio Rear output".

The System Information control panel Components: Sound Device sees two sound devices installed. I just can't figure out how to tell it to use the SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio that it was using before, even though the system knows it's still there.

More frustrating, nothing in the various bits of ATI software seems to give me any control over sound. It's got multiple desktops and other nice visual things, but zilch for sound control.

Funnier and funnier, I tell ya.

Comments

[stephenray.livejournal.com]

Damn. That's a new one on me. I don't know anything about ATI cards, but maybe check the properies/sound setting control panel? Maybe Windows switched over to the cards driver for sound?

Sorry, that's all I got.

[drwex]

Yeah, I'm quite sure that Windows switched over to the card's sound driver. What's funny is that Warcraft still has sound because it sees both sound devices and offers me a dropdown to let me choose which sound device the game should use.

Windows ought to be at least that smart.

I think Windows does have that switch

[meadmaker.livejournal.com]

Open the "Sounds and Audio Devices" control panel (C:\Windows\system32\mmsys.cpl). Go to the Audio tab, and the first control I have selects the sound playback default device. Actually, this entire tab is all about selecting which audio device to use.

Of course, this is in Windows XP professional, so other versions of Windows may alter that.

Re: I think Windows does have that switch

[drwex]

Thanks. I do have XP so I'll give this a try as soon as I get home tonight.

(I'm not switching to Vista until I'm absolutely forced to do so. And maybe not even then.)

[n5red.livejournal.com]

Install Linux?

Re: I think Windows does have that switch

[drwex]

Yay! That wins!