How do I install a new sound card into my computer?
You are correct about the built-in sound not being any good for recording. I will tell you which sound card to buy at they end of the answer. Here’s a quick step-by-step instruction on installing your sound card: 1 – *this is important* You should DISABLE the existing on-board sound from your computer’s motherboard before doing anything else. Here’s how – when you first power on your PC you will see a splash screen that says something like “Press F10 for Setup” or something similar. Hit the key immediately. Once you are in this area you need to navigate around through all of the menus and look for something like “on board sound.” It will be difficult to find but when you do, set that to “Disabled”, not “Auto” or “Enabled”. You must save your changes and exit this setup. Power up the computer to verify that there is no sound now, if you still hear sound go back to the Setup menus and keep looking. If you screw anything up there is a option to “reset defaults.” 2- Unplug the power cable
