Unable to run USB speakers and sound card at the same time!

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Use Control Panel->Sounds And Audio Devices->Audio tab to select the default
device for sound playback.

"jrbdmb" <jrbdmb@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I am running Windows XP SP 1. Up to today I was running with a Turtle
> Beach Santa Cruz sound card and Altec Lansing speakers, and everything
> worked great. Today I tried to hook up a USB FM Transmitter
> (http://www.mobileblackbox.com) so that I could pipe Major League
> Baseball audio feeds or streaming Internet radio over an FM frequency
> (at very low power) to the FM radios in my house. The tramsmitter
> attaches to the USB as a pair of USB speakers.
>
> Unfortunately, as soon as XP recognizes the USB FM transmitter, it
> becomes the default output device and I can no longer get any sound
> out of the Turtle Beach card. Disconnect the USB FM transmitter, and
> al else goes back to normal.
>
> So, the question is whether there is any way to get the USB speakers
> and the sound card to work at the same time. Thanks for any info on
> this.