First Build and a question

[Tanker]

Hi All,

I'm building a new system and all components are ordered and most have arrived:
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R MB
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 Processor
EVGA GeForce 7600 GT
Apevia X-Telstar ATX Full Tower Case
Antec NeoHE 550 Power Supply
Crucail Ballistix 2 GB DDR2 800 memory
WD 250 GB SATA Drives (2)
Lite-on 20x DVD Burner
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 7.1
MS XP Home OEM

In reading the MB Manual, I didn't find anyting about disabling the on-board sound in the BIOS. Does this mean I just disable it in the device manager? (in order to run the Audigy card). Should I get everything up and running with the on-board sound first, and then install the Audigy card?

Thanks for any help,
Tanker

[Cricket]

Originally Posted by Tanker In reading the MB Manual, I didn't find anyting about disabling the on-board sound in the BIOS. Does this mean I just disable it in the device manager? (in order to run the Audigy card).

You disable the on-board sound in the BIOS. Did you read the BIOS section of the manual yet?

Originally Posted by Tanker Should I get everything up and running with the on-board sound first, and then install the Audigy card?

Generally you assemble just the things necessary to install the OS with (motherboard, CPU w/heatsink, video card, 1 stick of RAM, 1 optical drive, 1 hard drive, keyboard, mouse, power supply and monitor) and after you've installed the OS and necessary drivers (motherboard chipset and video) you then install all the other components along with their drivers.

Cricket

[Tanker]

Thanks, Cricket,

I went back through the manual and finally found it under "Integrated Peripherels", then under "Azalia Codec". Silly me, I was looking for "on-board audio"! The mechanics of this build process are not too difficult, it's the language barrier that confuses me.

Tanker