1. Disable the onboard sound. 2. Remove the soundcard. 3. Remove all of the "stealth" devices for both the onboard audio and the PCI soundcard in the Device Manager after booting into safe mode (does it also give the STOP when booting in safe mode?) 4. Play with the "PnP OS installed" setting in the BIOS (if it's off, it means the BIOS would allocate IRQs, DMAs, etc. automatically before OS bootup, if it's on, BIOS lets the OS choose all the resources; usually, the less automatical settings, the better). 5. Enable the onboard audio, boot, install whichever driver there is for it, then reboot, disable the onboard audio, boot again, shutdown Windows, install the PCI card, boot and install its own driver (preferrably latest revision). 6. Is the soundcard a Creative card of some flavour? 7. Have you actually deleted the driver (complete with the .inf and all) for the onboard audio, or just deleted the device in DM?
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Date: 2006-07-06 11:28 am (UTC)2. Remove the soundcard.
3. Remove all of the "stealth" devices for both the onboard audio and the PCI soundcard in the Device Manager after booting into safe mode (does it also give the STOP when booting in safe mode?)
4. Play with the "PnP OS installed" setting in the BIOS (if it's off, it means the BIOS would allocate IRQs, DMAs, etc. automatically before OS bootup, if it's on, BIOS lets the OS choose all the resources; usually, the less automatical settings, the better).
5. Enable the onboard audio, boot, install whichever driver there is for it, then reboot, disable the onboard audio, boot again, shutdown Windows, install the PCI card, boot and install its own driver (preferrably latest revision).
6. Is the soundcard a Creative card of some flavour?
7. Have you actually deleted the driver (complete with the .inf and all) for the onboard audio, or just deleted the device in DM?