Realtek or Creative

[josephs1959]

EVGA 780i motherboard. Creative Xfi soundcard. I was wondering if there are any known conflicts between "Realtek" and "Creative" and/or is realtek necessary? Realtek came with the motherboard. But I'm used to using Creative. For my music sound shaping recordeing.

[x6BL_Brando]

Go into your BIOS and disable the on-board sound, end of problem.

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[josephs1959]

x6BL_Brando; I tried what you've suggested but I'm still getting no sound.

[x6BL_Brando]

No sound at all, not just in FB? Please Run (a) dxdiag and Save All Information , copy & paste the results here. Remember to run the tests Direct sound and Direct music first.

Check to see if you have installed the Creative Audio Console.

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[josephs1959]

Creative audio console is NOT installed. Now what?

[FoolTrottel]

Re-install the correct Xfi drivers for the soundcard.

After a succesfull install the Audio Console will be there...

[josephs1959]

I deleted the Creative program using 'Control panel'/'add delete programs" Then i re-installed Creative. Now I have the following files listed under creative folder;creative media source 5- 1)audio converter- 2)organizer-3)player-4)Go.Creative media source-1)audio converter. 2)organizer 3)Player.

[Yellow_Sub]

Afaik, there are 2 packages one software and one driver package I think you have installed the software. Which OS do you use and which card do you have?

[josephs1959]

I tried another slot on my motherboard and the soundcard failed, so I'm afraid it's the card that's at fault.