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I have been using the on board audio until I recently had a project
which required converting some analog cassettes and vinyl into the PC.
I use Cool Edit Pro as my sound program, and yes, I know that
Syntrillium sold it to Adobe who now sells a product called "Audition"
to replace Cool Edit Pro. I am not at a financial point to rush out
and buy something new however.

Anyway, with on board sound I found that the idle audio levels (call
it a noise floor if you like) is not only high, but excessively high
on the right channel. When recording begins, the right channel does
not draw waveforms at the 0db mark, but 6db below. I seem to recall
feeding cassette via a Sony Pro Walkman (WMD6) without this problem
many months ago. Couldn't find a logical cause so....

Disabled the on board sound in BIOS and put my older Creative PCI
Sound Blaster 128 card in. It runs fine, and Cool Edit Pro sees it
perfectly, recording channels as one would expect. If, however, I
leave the Creative card installed and re-enable on board sound, Cool
Edit cannot see the audio. I assume it is only looking for the
Creative (even though I change all PC settings to use on board as the
preferred source). Removing the Creative reverts back to the other
scenario, which by the way I tried different drivers for the Nvidia on
board sound (and only the original which shipped with the mobo)
allowed the on screen LED bars, equalizer, and FX to work.

Went back to the Creative to do the project. Then when removing it and
again testing on board sound, I now get absolutely no audio output
from the mobo. All settings are reverted to use on board for preferred
source, speaker icon shows OK, and visually it looks like the sound is
working, but obviously not.

I am thinking the on board sound chip failed, but any thoughts here?

I'm, leaving the Creative card on line tfn.....

TIA