User manual

Installing Hardware 1-9

Step 4: Connect

cables to Sound

Blaster Audigy 2

card

For analog CD audio output:

connect an Analog CD audio cable (available separately) from the Analog Audio

connector on your CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive to the CD_IN connector on the Sound

Blaster Audigy 2 card as shown in Figure 1-6.

For digital CD audio output:

connect the Digital CD audio cable (included with some models) from the Digital

Audio connector on your CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive to the CD_SPDIF connector on

the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 card as shown in Figure 1-6.

• If the Sound Blaster

Audigy 2 card is

connected to both the

CD_SPDIF and CD Audio

connectors on a CD-ROM

or DVD-ROM drive, do

not enable the CD Audio

and CD Digital options at

the same time in Creative

Surround Mixer.

• Analog and Digital CD

audio cables are not

needed when CDDA is

used.

• The CD_SPDIF connector

is not used with software

DVD players.

Figure 1-6: Connecting analog/digital audio cables to CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drives.

A: CD-ROM/DVD-ROM

drive

B: Analog CD Audio

cable (available

separately)

C: Digital CD Audio

cable (included

with some models)