Colin,
It's hard to know what to expect since you don't really know how an
integrated card is implemented. Long experience has taught me to expect the
unexpected when dealing with computers. Some manufacturers do things right,
and some take shortcuts that seem harmless until you try to do something
like using an external sound card. The worst of it is that you probably
won't find out until you plug in the card and power up the system.
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 11:56
Subject: Re: RFI problem.
> well, since generally there is an onboard soundcard, I would think it
> would
> be fairly stable being intigrated into the mother board.
> One extra PCI soundcard shouldn't drastically effect the stability much
> after that.
> Perhaps if you were attempting to use two 7.1 PCI cards, there might be
> some
> issues. but a regular PCI stereo multichannel sound card along with the
> onboard sound shouldn't even bear the question of bus instability.
> 73
> Colin, V A6BKX
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Dresser" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 9:37 AM
> Subject: Re: RFI problem.
>
>
>> Colin,
>>
>> Given today's fast CPUs, I agree that the processor is probably not the
>> problem. The instability may result from the way the sound cards are
>> connected to the bus. It may also depend on the sound cards themselves.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 00:14
>> Subject: Re: RFI problem.
>>
>>
>> > yes, perhaps 6 or 7 years ago, machine instability, crashing windows
>> > and
>> > over worked processors were an issue.
>> > I would step out on a limb and say that anything that has a modern
>> > processor, 2.8GB and up with 512 or more of ram shouldn't ever have a
>> > problem running two sound cards.
>> > I suppose that in the case of the old pentium 1 or 2 or 3 shack box,
> that
>> > stability and resources could be a problem, but certainly not generally
>> > speaking about modern systems.
>> > And booting from DOS? now your showing your age. And so am I for all
> that
>> > lol.
>> > 73
>> > Colin, V A6BKX
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
>> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> > Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 10:02 PM
>> > Subject: Re: RFI problem.
>> >
>> >
>> >> Two sound cards can be a challenge to stability in some machines. It
> is
>> >> still handy to have real speech at dos. You can dig yourself out of
>> > trouble
>> >> if windows won't boot. You can run talking dos and dos programs from
> the
>> >> desktop. You can take the extra load off the processor if things get
>> > tight.
>> >>
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