bought a new sound card

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someone told me I couldn't have windows running while I uninstall the drivers
for my present sound on my dell 8300. I don't have a sound card in it now so
I was told it's was on my motherboard. I bought a new sound card so I know
I'll have to install the cd disc that comes with it for installation. My
question is can't I just uninstall the sound while my computer is running
windows? I have windows xp on my computer now. someone told something about
bios has to be running or something like that. Thanks for your help.
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attilathehun1

 

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If you have integrated sound, you may have to disable it in BIOS.. check
with Dell..

Re. installing the new sound card, power off before installing the card into
a slot.. restart, and load drivers and support software from the supplied
CD..

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"attilathehun1" <attilathehun1@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6183DB6B-010C-4668-840F-BD7E793665F3@microsoft.com...
> someone told me I couldn't have windows running while I uninstall the
> drivers
> for my present sound on my dell 8300. I don't have a sound card in it now
> so
> I was told it's was on my motherboard. I bought a new sound card so I know
> I'll have to install the cd disc that comes with it for installation. My
> question is can't I just uninstall the sound while my computer is running
> windows? I have windows xp on my computer now. someone told something
> about
> bios has to be running or something like that. Thanks for your help.
> --
> attilathehun1