onboard sound & pci sound card?

[The_Fire_Theft]

Would it be possible to use both a sound card and the onboard sound? The reason being, my sound is an M-Audio Audiophile 2496 that I use for recording guitar. The thing is, the sound card doesn't allow me to use the PC volume bar, and some other things don't work right when I have it installed. For example the 3DMark sound test won't run with the card installed, without it everythings fine, just things don't sound as good.

Yes I do have up to date drivers installed.

Anyone?

[pave_spectre]

Is the device shown as working properly under 'Device Manager'? No conflicts?

[The_Fire_Theft]

No everything is fine in device manager.

[Inka]

As its all installed fine, all that you should need to do is go into audio properties & set the defaults for playback & recording to the appropriate sound cards.

If the defaults are set to the 'other' device then thats probably why the controls dont work.