Fun with sound!

[ms25]

During a silent install of Windows XP Professional, is there a way to make XP choose which of the two sound cards to set as the default choice?

I have:

- VIA Audio (attached to motherboard so i can't remove it)

- Creative Sound Blaster PCI (new one)

XP sets VIA Audio as the default sound card for all sound, i want XP to set Creative Sound Blaster PCI as the default one. instead of having to manually do it myself.

thanks for reading

[trickytwista]

you can disable onboard audio (VIA) in your bios settings...cheers

[ms25]

ooh, sounds technical. didn't think of that! i'll give it a go!

thanks for replying

[trickytwista]

its easy bud....just find it in list and choose disable .... also dont forget 2 save the changes afterwards

[bledd]

yeah, it'll most likely come under 'PCI devices' or 'Onboard devices'

[erik_demon]

I do it with an AutoIt script at first boot:

(this autoit is for a dutch version of XP, you have to modify it)

Opt("MouseCoordMode", 0)
run("control mmsys.cpl")
WinWaitActive ("Eigenschappen voor Geluiden en audioapparaten")
MouseClick("left", 175, 50, 1);goto the audio tab
MouseClick("left", 324, 118, 1); open the dropbox to select your device
Send ("sb"); name of your sound device, I have a Soundblaster audigy 2 so it starts with the letters sb
MouseClick("left", 322, 432, 1); click apply
MouseClick("left", 155, 432, 1); close the program

Edited May 25, 2005 by erik_demon