new PC with onboard sound

[BrettB]

Hi all,

I am planning of buying a new PC to work with a Digi 002 rack. Many Pc's allready have some shitty onboard sound thingy. Does it give a problem when wanting to use the computer with the DIgi 002r? Can you disable that stuff easy or will it give problems when hooking up the Digi?

thx

 

[Sklathill]

Any decent motherboard will provide some way of disabling sound directly via the motherboard bios. This is always preferable to seeing it disabled in Windows. Well, unless you feel the need to disable and reenable in Windows as you go along within a boot. My FIC and Abit allow this, as does my Dell desktop from 2 years ago.

Of course, this doesn't mean that it will automatically work perfectly with your 002r. It's just an option that you like to know is there...that you might not even have to take to get things working.

 

[Jim Y]

Whatever you do, it's still good practice to disable any on-board peripheral you don't need. Having said that, on a modern pc you can have several audio devices, and if it's important to have Windows sounds, there should be no harm in using an onboard soundchip - preferable I think, than having them use your pro-audio interface.
The 002 is Firewire? Maybe more important is that you have a Firewire controller that Digidesign approve, and that it isn't sharing an IRQ. Not that expensive to disable an onboard one and buy a PCI interface if you have to.