onboard audio and microphone input problem

[bball_1523]

I have a problem that I want to figure out asap. I have two soundcards, m-audio firewire solo external soundcard for recording and jamming with my guitar and guitar rig program, and realtek onboard audio on the motherboard. Both are enabled and work fine, except the realtek's mic input doesn't work right.

I tried going to the audio properties or volume control, and enabled realtek's mic input, but it still won't pick up the mic, but rather auto-switches to the m-audio inputs. The main thing I wanna use this for is to voice chat over Aol Im and Yahoo messenger with friends, while playing guitar at the same time.

I tried recording with Adobe audition with my mic and I got to select the input from the realtek onboard audio mic, and it worked while I was playing guitar through the m-audio card, all at the same time. BUT it won't work with AOL or yahoo voice chat.

Is there anyway I can use both as the same time? It will save my from buying a new XLR mic that costs around $100 total.

[ror_b211]

You shouldn't have two sound cards activated at the same time, they don't work together for some reason.

[bball_1523]

Originally Posted by ror_b211 You shouldn't have two sound cards activated at the same time, they don't work together for some reason.

well the only thing that isn't working together is what I described above. But it's weird how Adobe Audition lets me use the onboard audio's mic input as a recording input, while at the same time I am playing guitar through my other m-audio soundcard.

[ror_b211]

Thats the problem, the drivers conflict with eachother, making it unpredictable what inputs/outputs to use. If you buy any retail sound card in the instructions it will say 'disable/uninstall all previous sound drivers' somewhere.