I would like to move my sound card above the GPU. Right now it's under it, because I thought it wouldn't fit up there with my new water cooler. But there seems to be more than enough room. So my question is, once I move the sound card from one slot to another, do I have to reinstall the drivers or change any of the settings? Thanks in advance :)
You do not need to change settings or re-install anything if you move the card.
Every time i have moved my soundcard on any motherboard i have had Windows usually pick the card up again as a new device. Its kind of on the same basis as with USB devices also. If you have say a USB stick in one USB port and move it to another it will detect the device as a new one and reinstall drivers again.
In some cases it will pick the Soundcard up like i said as a new device but will find driver's from your system. But you need to check then that you 1: don't have two soundcards installed within sound properties. And 2: You don't have a multimedia device in "Device Manager" with a exclamation mark at the side of it.
Glad that it worked out for you and I'm glad that taylorig had some things for you to look out for. I guess that I've just been lucky. I've not seen those things with W7.
Yeh, glad it worked out for you crankypenguin :)
Funny enough not long after i posted in this thread last night i went about moving my Sound card down to my bottom PCI slot in hopes of getting rid of some the static/low squeaks when moving my mouse around or browsing websites. It is kind of a well known issue on Creative cards...
Anyway i uninstalled all the drivers due to what i explained above about i've always had small issue's when moving this Sound card around. I now notice that my Sound card in Windows Playback Devices shows as "2 - Creative SB X-Fi". Before i moved it it didn't have the "2" infront of it
This is the only reason i have hated Creative cards because they try to be cleaver and take over themselves. But in reality they're stupid lol
You know I just noticed this, but I also have a 2 in front of the name nowYeh, glad it worked out for you crankypenguin :)
Funny enough not long after i posted in this thread last night i went about moving my Sound card down to my bottom PCI slot in hopes of getting rid of some the static/low squeaks when moving my mouse around or browsing websites. It is kind of a well known issue on Creative cards...
Anyway i uninstalled all the drivers due to what i explained above about i've always had small issue's when moving this Sound card around. I now notice that my Sound card in Windows Playback Devices shows as "2 - Creative SB X-Fi". Before i moved it it didn't have the "2" infront of it
This is the only reason i have hated Creative cards because they try to be cleaver and take over themselves. But in reality they're stupid lol, but I don't think this is a big issue as long as everything works ok.
Yea. It's stupid why it does this. I even went so far as to Uninstall all Creative Software/Drivers. And run Driver Sweeper before rebooting. Then again in Safe Mode. And once more after rebooting just to check everything had gone. I even checked through my Registry and everything had completely gone. Or so i thought...
Like you said it's not a problem. It just bugs the hell out of me to be honest. I like everything just right lol The only thing you have to watch is some programs will always look for the Default device and sometimes don't find it. It's just a matter of telling that program which device you want to use though. No biggy. But something to keep an eye out for :)
Yep. That would indeed drive me nuts. I'm that bad for everything being just right i would do a full re-install. Actually considering it with this "2" thing in front of my Sound card. I know, Bad eh! LOL
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