Hi folks... I posted a little bit ago about adding a USB sound input to one of my machines to consolidate some of my hardware. After less than favorable reviews of the USB based sound cards I did a little digging thru my stash of old hardware and was able to build another pc. I've got an old P3-533 that had a Sound Blaster Gold PCI card in it... I installed WinXP and everything works great. A little more digging turned up another Sound Blaster Gold PCI, so I slapped it into the box. Windows boots, the little 'new hardware found' icon appears in the bottom right, and within a minute or two the box freezes and reboots. Now I'm guessing it's likely fighting over IRQ's or something. I've tried moving the cards into various slots, and assigning IRQ's manually in the BIOS (I have 6 PCI slots.... 1 and 2 are independant, 3 & 6 share and 4 & 5 share) but no no avail. Either XP boots, then eventually crashes or I get a BSOD on bootup. Anyone have any bits of wisdom to share with getting multiple sound cards to play in the same machine? I've got an oldie goldie ISA ESS Audiodrive board as well, but XP seems to ignore it completely. Basically I'm trying to run my online scanner stream and use a decoding program like Trunk88 on the same box. I tried going the stereo input route (left pin is discriminator from scanner 1, right pin is audio for my stream) but didn't have much luck there, although I didn't spend a lot of time on it.
Hints, tips and suggestions greatly appreciated! In the meantime I'll go get me a thinkin' beer and see what I can come up with
Hints, tips and suggestions greatly appreciated! In the meantime I'll go get me a thinkin' beer and see what I can come up with