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 2-6
Step 5: Install the
external Audigy
Drive
1. Attach the SB1394 connector on the Audigy Extension cable
to the SB1394 Extension ports on the Audigy Extension card
and external Audigy Drive as shown in Figure 2-6.
2. Attach the 44-pin DB connector on the Audigy Extension
cable to the Audigy Extension connectors on the Audigy
Extension card and External Audigy Drive.
3. If you are installing a joystick or a MIDI device, connect the
Joystick/MIDI connector on the Audigy Extension cable to
the device.
Step 6: Connect the
CD-ROM/DVD-
ROM drive
For analog CD audio output:
connect the Analog CD audio cable (not included) from the
Analog Audio connector on your CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive
to the CD_IN connector on the Sound Blaster Audigy card as
shown in Figure 2-7.
For digital CD audio output:
connect the Digital CD audio cable from the Digital Audio
connector on your CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive to the
CD_SPDIF connector on the Sound Blaster Audigy card.
Figure 2-6: Connecting the cables to the extern
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Audigy Drive.
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Audigy Extension card
Rear panel of external
Audigy Drive
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If the Sound Blaster Audigy
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
Surround Mixer.
Figure 2-7: Connecting CD-ROM/DVD-ROM
drives.
CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive
Sound Blaster Audigy card
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