I think I'll make this my 'ultimate linux help' thr ead to come to whenever I have a problem so that if some one needs help they may be able to find it based on the problems I'm having.
So now, I have a new question in regards to the sound card issue.
In my BIOS I've turned off my onboard sound so that I wouldn't have to physically uninstall it. That's the easiest plan I've found. Now that I can't use my good sound card in linux I'd like to be able to use onboard whenever I log into linux, and the SB sound card whenever I sign into Windows.
Of course the problem here is that the onboard might trip up Windows when I log on and it sees two sources of speakers. If the sound drivers for the onboard speakers are uninstalled in Windows do you think this would still be a problem?
My plan for the sound system is to try to find a splitter I suppose so that all of my speakers are ultimately plugged into both sound cards and it will just play through whatever sound card I have running.
Something like this:
