User`s guide
Table Of Contents
- User’s Guide
- Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum eX Creative Audio Software
- Contents
- Introduction
- About the Sound Blaster Audigy Card and external Audigy Drive
- Installing Hardware
- Installation Steps
- Step 1: Prepare the external Audigy Drive
- Step 2: Prepare your computer
- Step 3: Connect the Sound Blaster Audigy and Audigy Extension cards
- Step 4: Install the Sound Blaster Audigy and Audigy Extension cards
- Step 5: Install the external Audigy Drive
- Step 6: Connect the CD-ROM/DVD- ROM drive
- Step 7: Connect to power supply
- Connecting Related Peripherals
- Connecting Speaker Systems
- Connecting External Consumer Devices
- Positioning Your Speakers
- Installation Steps
- Installing Software
- Sound Blaster Audigy Applications
- Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Applications
- Creative Taskbar
- Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Online Quick Start (English only)
- Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Experience (English only)
- EAX ADVANCED HD™ Gold Mine Experience (English only)
- Creative Diagnostics
- Creative Surround Mixer
- Creative AudioHQ
- Creative WaveStudio
- Creative PlayCenter
- Creative Recorder
- Vienna SoundFont Studio
- Creative MiniDisc Center
- Creative RemoteCenter
- Creative Restore Defaults
- Using Applications
- General Specifications
- Troubleshooting & FAQ’s
- Problems Installing Software
- Problems with Sound
- Problems with File Transfers on Some VIA Chipset Motherboards
- Insufficient SoundFont Cache
- Problems With Joysticks
- Problems with Multiple Audio Devices
- Problems with Sound Blaster Live! Series or Sound Blaster PCI512 card
- Resolving I/O Conflicts
- Problems with Encore DVD Player (not included)
- Problems with Software DVD Player (not included)
- Problems with DV driver for Windows 98 SE/ 2000/Me/XP
- Problems with installing non- Creative applications
- Problems with Digital Devices
- Technical Support
Installing Hardware 2-5
Step 4: Install the
Sound Blaster
Audigy and Audigy
Extension cards
1. Align the Sound Blaster Audigy card with the PCI slot and
press the card gently but firmly into the slot as shown in
Figure 2-4.
2. Align the Audigy Extension card with an adjacent free slot.
3. Secure the Audigy Extension card with one of the screws
you had placed aside earlier as shown in Figure 2-5.
4. Secure the Sound Blaster Audigy card with the other screw.
5. Connect the power splitter cable from the Audigy Extension
card to the system power supply unit.
Do not force the audio card into the
slot. Make sure that the gold finger
PCI connector on the Sound Blaster
Audigy card is aligned with the PCI
bus connector on the motherboard
before you insert the card into the
PCI expansion slot.
If it does not fit properly, gently
remove it and try again
.
Unused brackets
PCI slot
ISA slot
Figure 2-4: Aligning the cards against the slots.
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Fasten the cards and
brackets with screws.
Figure 2-5: Securing the cards to the slots.
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