topic Re: RS 702 Sound card in PCs & Accessories

RS 702 Sound card

topspeed007 — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 06:03:56 GMT

Hi

I have an RS702 and have, at the moment NO problems :), however, what i wish to to is upgrade my sound card.

I am about to order a set of THX speakers, altec lansing..(mx5021)mmm, and would like to know if I can upgrade my sound card. If I upgrade will giga pocket and all the front/rear panel ports still work audio wise or have sony hijacked this option?
I will try the speakers without a card upgrade but eventually there will be the need to ..just do it..

I know that without a THX card they wont produce the effects required

Cheers..

Re: RS 702 Sound card

seb21__ — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 10:07:07 GMT

There should be no problem. The problem could be Sony Software. I don't know whether Gigapocket will work with another Soundcard.

I would say: .............try before buy.

uninstall the current drivers of your Soundcard

deactivate the Soundcard in Hardware Manager

shutdown your VAIO

put in your new PCI Soundcard

boot your VAIO

install the Drivers of your new Soundcard

reboot your VAIO

rightclick on soundcard > deactivate
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That should work. The problem is that you can't disable the Onboard-sound in BIOS.

Re: RS 702 Sound card

feederfan — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 19:13:50 GMT

If you want high quality, buy a soundblaster Audigy card.
I have an audigy 2 platinum and its fantastic!

Re: RS 702 Sound card

topspeed007 — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 07:22:18 GMT

If you want high quality, buy a soundblaster Audigy card.
I have an audigy 2 platinum and its fantastic!

I presume that you have a Vaio running giga-pocket and all the associated software and that all sound is available as normal as that card is mega 'high' spec. I was looking at something similar to the Creative Soundblaster Audigy2 ZS 7.1 (£50+) as i doubt i can stretch to the platinum (£110+) version at the time being.

cheers