Soundcard problems???

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Hi, yesterday I installed a M-Audio soundcard into my computer which it accepted perfectly. The card works great! But I lost my midi/joystick port options. The midi/joystick port is a part of the motherboard/soundcard set-up and when I installed the new pci slot soundcard, now the midi is gone. Is there a way I can turn that part of the old card on. Am I making sense? And the new card has no midi. Thanks for your help.
 
What's the MB/CPU/OS?

Offhand, I'm not sure you will be able to use only the MIDI of the soundcard on the motherboard. You will have to use it all or bust, as I think they say.

You'll basically have to enable the motherboard soundcard from the system BIOS if you want to enable the souncard. Some motherboards have this setting to 'Auto' which switches off the onboard soundcard if it detects another soundcard on a PCI slot.

Can't tell you where to find it unless I know MB/CPU. Your vendor should be able to answer both of these. He should also be able to enable the onboard sound from the BIOS over a phone call. It takes all of 30 seconds to do.

Sang
 
Thanks for the reply, I am running a 900mhz Hewlett Packard Pentium 3 with 128Ram. WinME. Ill look for the BIOS feature.
 
If you can't activate the sound card, or it conflicts with the new one. you could always pick up a gameport card and a midi harness fairly cheap. Then there's always a 1x1 USB MIDI port

Steve
 
MOFO,

MOFO Pro said:
If you can't activate the sound card, or it conflicts with the new one. you could always pick up a gameport card and a midi harness fairly cheap. Then there's always a 1x1 USB MIDI port

Steve
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Where can I pick up a 1x1 midi port, or what brand is it?
 
Check it out..I think it's called Midisport at midiman.com
 
Just what he says... (thanks GETUHGRIP) but depending on what your plans for the future, you may want to consider a 4x4 midi hub. I started with a 2 channel midi merge box and worked my way up to an 8 channel midi hub timepiece in no time. Most all audio equipment is midi compatable now so it doesn't take too long to run out of ports (which I have again, even with 10 channels I've got to use a couple merge bixes to connect everything).

Steve
 
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