Sound cards

[kirisutogomen]

Calling all Course 6s? So I think the onboard sound in our desktop computer is dying. Hopefully I'm interpreting the symptoms correctly.

If so, it seems to me that my best solution is to buy a sound card. Am I right? If the onboard sound on the motherboard is malfunctioning, will that malfunction a sound card too, or can I just tell the onboard sound to shut up and let the sound card take over? (And how would I tell it that?) And what question am I not asking that I should be?

Also, grrrrrr.

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[kirisutogomen.livejournal.com]

Hopefully sound cards are inexpensive enough that I'll just buy one, unless there's some really convenient way of transferring possession of it.

I'm kind of guessing here, but the symptoms don't go away when I swap the speakers for other speakers or headphones, and I get the same symptoms from the front audio jack as from the rear one. (The symptoms are not a lack of sound, but that the sound is, in technical terms, fucked up.)