wrote:
I went into the bios to disable the onboard sound
controller and it only allows me to change the IRQ. There
is no option for disabling this device.



Hi,

Well, that's different. Do you know the make/model of your PC or even
better the motherboard itself? Post them here if you have them. You can
disable the device in Device Manager by checking the "disable in this
hardware profile" box and unchecking the "exists in all hardware
profiles" box for now, even though it's not the same as disabling it in
BIOS.

mm