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 Software 3-4
Uninstalling
Applications
You may at times need to uninstall and then reinstall the applications to correct problems, change
configurations, or make version upgrades. The following instructions tell you how to uninstall the
applications in all Windows operating systems.
1. Insert the Sound Blaster Audigy Installation CD into your CD-ROM drive.
The disc supports Windows AutoPlay mode and starts running automatically. If not, see “Problems
Installing Software” on page B-2.
2. Close all audio card applications. Applications that are still running during the uninstallation will not
be removed.
3. Click Start -> Settings -> Control Panel.
4. Double-click the Add/Remove Programs icon.
5. Click the Install/Uninstall tab and select Sound Blaster Audigy.
Click the Add/Remove button.
6. When the InstallShield Wizard dialog box appears, click the check boxes of the items that you want
to uninstall to clear them.
The selected applications will be uninstalled.
7. Click the Next button.
8. If prompted, restart your computer.
Reinstalling
Applications
You may want to reinstall the applications in the event of driver corruption.
1. Insert the Sound Blaster Audigy Installation CD into your CD-ROM drive.
The disc supports Windows AutoPlay mode and starts running automatically. If not, see “Problems
Installing Software” on page B-2.
2. Click Start -> Settings -> Control Panel.
3. Double-click the Add/Remove Programs icon.
4. Click the Install/Uninstall tab and select Sound Blaster Audigy.
Click the Add/Remove button.
5. When the InstallShield Wizard dialog box appears, click the Repair option to select it.
This option reinstalls all the applications installed previously.