With advances in motherboard technology and particularly chipsets, it’s common to find your motherboard includes support for sound in chipset. The sound solution offered onboard often includes full surround-sound capability with up to 7.1 speakers supported without the need of an added sound card. In order to use your onboard sound, however, you’ll need to enable the sound in your BIOS, the onboard programming that controls the general setup parameters of your PC. Once enabled in BIOS, the operating system automatically installs the drivers you need to offer full functionality for both speaker and headphone setups. Writer Bio
