Sound Cards

The purpose of a sound card on a computer is for sound to be output through speakers or headphones. The sound card works by converting digital data to sound.

A sound card is a low-cost audio interface. All sound cards provide digital-to-analog conversion of audio waveform data. Most have analog-to-digital conversion from microphone and/or line-level inputs, as well. Some sound cards also produce waveforms from MIDI data, although that feature is rarely used, today.

The way you can tell if your PC motherboard has a built on sound card is by looking at the ports on the back of the PC. Above is a picture of a sound card. You will see blue, black, green, orange, pink, and grey colors the colors you see are the sound ports where you plug in your mic, headphone/speakers etc.

Like any hardware in a computer, a soundcard can just stop working.

nothing, just plug it in. You might need to install some drivers for advanced features, but if there aren't any, then you're good to go

Audio export usually happens via digital route, so the quality of the soundcard shouldn't affect it unless you are doing some sort of analog processing while working with DAW

There are many places one could purchase an external sound card. They can be found in numerous stores such as Best Buy or on websites such as Amazon and eBay.

Sound travels faster in water thanin air.

In a Dsktop it is connected to the motherboard which has a sound chip that controls The Input and output Of Sound.

When you "format a computer", what you're essentially doing is erasing everything on the hard drive. This includes all your files and information you've saved, along with your operating system and device drivers. When your computer boots with a freshly formatted hard drive, it starts looking for an operating system, sees there is none there, and usually shows an error message saying something like "DISK OR DRIVE ERROR". If this is the case, you need to find the installation disks for your operating system (Windows, or Mac OS X if you're using a modern Mac), and use them to install your OS again.

If you've installed the Operating system, and you're having problems playing sound or connecting to the net, it's likely you need to install device drivers. These help your operating system work with the hardware in your computer - you can find them by searching online (using another computer) for the drivers for your make of modem, sound card, or other devices which aren't working yet. If your hardware came with a disk, usually the driver can be found on that.

Yes, that sound card should work perfectly well with a Mac so long as it meets the minimum requirements (G3* 500MHz with OS 9.2.2, 128MB RAM # G4* 500MHz with OS X 10.1.5, 10.2.6 or greater, 256MB RAM). If you aren't sure your machine can run it, open up the About This Mac screen and compare with those specs.

You can try reinstalling the drivers, or just get a new one. You really can't repair the actual hard ware.

Goto, START Menu > Control Panel, then click on Sounds and Audio Devices... In the Volume tab click on "Place Volume Icon on Task Bar". Adjust the volume controls in the mixer to reset the Modem level. After installing a modem, the original settings have probably been lost or reset.

As far as I have been able to find its the ADI AC97 Integrated Digital Audio Driver vers. 5.12.1.4070 . If you check this page you should find all the drivers you need. http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodNameId=447280&prodSeriesId=454811&swLang=8&taskId=135&swEnvOID=1098#113165 Good luck !!

They're both the same because they can be plugged in and they're different because they are used is different ways.

For most consumers and computers, a USB sound card typically can run for around 40 to 60 dollars depending on the quality and manufacturer of the device in question.

there are 2 diffferent styles of the 25 pin connectors on the back of a pc. One is called the male gender which can be identified by gold colored pins sticking out and are layed out in 2 rows- top row has 13 pins and second row has 12 pins. the other style is layed out the same way,however, it is called the female gender and all you can see is 25 holes instead of pins. The male connector is used for "serial" type of communication where the coded information is sent to another device using 1 wire in the cable to send information and 1 wire to receive information from another device. the other wires in the connector are used for control of data back and forth between devices. This was the first way devices communicated bi-directionally with each other. The female connector is used for "parallel" style communication and is usually only used to send data to a printer.

Yes it is just a preamp you need an audio interface that will connect the preamp to the audio interface into the computer and obviously a Mic in front of it

First, before we move on, make sure that you have windows up to date and all the latest drivers for your device.

OK, for starters, if you have windows vista try this:

In windows vista, the "stereo mix" is disabled by default. It being a virtual sound card, most people have trouble finding how to to enable it seeing as it does not show up in device manager. To enable the virtual sound card in Windows Vista, open the control panel, then sound: Control Panel-->Sound-->Recording Tab. Now right click the window. You should have two option appear that says "display disabled devices" and "display disconnected devices". Make sure "display disabled devices" is selected. A sound card called "stereo mix" should appear. Open the device properties and enable. You should then have your stereo mix in the audio control. Should should then be able to select that sound card from the list in your recording software's settings. (You may have to restart your computer first.)

If you are using a version of windows other than vista, or if you are using a laptop and want to record a stereo mix without playing audio through your speakers there is a great program out the called "Virtual Audio Cable" (VAC). It installs what a virtual sound card on your pc, well sort of... it allows you to set up a virtual patch bay system with multiple audio feeds. You could set the VAC output device as your primary sound card, then record from it. I will include a better description as well a a link to this software. The only downside is it cost $30 USD, but in my opinion, this someware is worth the price if you are doing a lot of recording.

A third alternative to buying software would be VLC media player. VLC media player has the option of saving any open streams to almost any file type. It opens streams from web streams, local files, as well as audio and video devices. It can also be conersed into converting files very nicely although this may take some practice will file formats, etc. It's free. I will include a link.

-Chris-

PS: Here's that VAC description I promised.

VAC is intended to connect several audio applications together in real time. It's like a sound card with hardwired input and output: when an application sends an audio stream to a virtual cable, other applications can record this stream from the other cable end. Thus, you can record and process output of almost any audio application by almost any other audio application.

This can be a frustrating thing!

The only choice you have is to either go to the NIC and sound manufacturer web sites and get the drivers, usually in the "support" section, or search (Google) for sites with drivers. That would be what I call the last resort as you are now using 3rd party software and could end up with malicious software and not the driver you need.

Best bet:

If available, call the mfr's and ask about where to get the drivers. most mfrs run either web sites, or FTP servers with all the drivers old and new.

Finally, since the drivers were apparently on one CD, it's an OEM CD. Go to your computer mfrs's website (i.e. dell.com, gateway.com, etc and look for the "support section". Any mfr should be able to provide a replacement driver CD.

NOTE: this reply for PC only.

The new card is trying to hold some resource that another part is trying to grab - since it's not even booting up it's probably grabbing the resources of the video subsystem (video card most often) if the screen doesn't come up right after you turn it on OR the it's grabbing the resources for the hard drive controller (which would stop boot of OP System.) You should take the new card out, close the computer, start it up, record the present settings (you can find in control panel in any windows after windows 95) and if you can change the video card to an empty number try that. Restart computer to be sure it worked. Shut it down, insert sound card. Boot up. If that doesn't work, see if you can change where the hard drive controller points to; close it, restart. If it works, close and turn off, reinstall new sound card.

If you can change the sound card now to something different than video or hard driver controllers old numbers, do so. Now change the video back (if it was changed) or revert the hard drive controller. Restart.

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Yes - you can send the sound file as an attachment to an email, or copy it to a USB drive and transfer it onto the other computer that way. Neither of these methods utilise the sound card.

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