Posts by Downside

There used to be a delay that would pop up every now and then, like a one second lag in when the sound should be heard, but I believe the last driver update from creative took care of it. Even before the update, it was pretty rare, and...

The audigy will play through the internal speakers, but you need to install the "feature mode selection utility" from creative's site, I don't think it comes on the install CD, unless they updated it since I purchased...

If you remove the audigy, and then put it back, windows will have made the onboard sound the default sound device again. You just need to go into the control panel and set the audigy as the default device for playback and recording.

If it's just for music, either digital option, coax or optical would be the best. There is no need for 5.1 or 7.1 playback on audio tracks, since next to no audio is encoded in that many channels. In theory, the optical will be a...

What your talking about is bridgeing. As stated, you can either use a pc with two nics, and bridge between them, or buy a wireless bridge, which is basically an access point with built in bridgeing. You don't want to use internet...

The "Run As" ability in XP makes running as a non-admin fairly painless. I think if most people understood how much more secure their PC would be if they setup a standard user acount for daily use, and used the "run...

I have the same pad from FUNC (alu version), and would recomend it 100%. Its by far the best mousing surface I've ever used.

I used the Razer Viper for a year or so, and recently got a Copperhead. Like most anything, it really comes down to the shape and how it fits your hand. Only reason I got the copperhead to replace the razer was I found it on sale at...

In order for the built in speakers to work, you need to have the onboard sound enabled, and the volume adjusted. Basically your using two sound cards at the same time, the Audigy is routing it's output into the onboard sound...

only other thing I can think of is to make sure you have the latest drivers for the onboard sound.