conflict: sound card versus audio chip on motherboard?

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I want to buy a 24/96 sound card and want to avoid a possible conflict. Right now I have no sound card in the traditional sense, I have a 16-bit audio chip on the motherboard. I've heard that if you add a sound card you can end up with conflicts w/such an audio chip set-up. Does anybody out there have any actual experience with this? If so did you have a problem and how did you solve it?
 
If you get a REAL card, it wont have an onboard synth and your "chip" probably does, so go ahead and try to get them both working together first...most of the time its an IRQ conflict and changing PCI slots sometimes fix it....if not, you have to go into your BIOS setup and disable the onboard sound...
 
I don't have onboard sound but I do have a GadgetLabs 496, a Delta 1010, and a cheap soundblaster imitation all running happily together in the same machine. I can even record with all three at once without much problem if I wanted to. You may or may not have problems. It's pretty much a crap shoot. But don't think that you CAN"T do it.

-jhe
 
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