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

General Specifications A-5
SB1394 Interfaces
❑ One 2 x 5 pin Internal SB1394 connector on card for connection to the Audigy Extension card
❑ One 6-pin SB1394 connector/port on rear bracket
Interfaces
❑ VOL_CTRL 1 x 4 pin header
❑
PC_SPK (PC speaker) 1 x 2 pin header
❑
AUD_EXT 2 x 20 pin header for connection to the Audigy Extension card
❑ JOYSTICK 2 x 8 pin header for connection to the Audigy Extension card
Audigy Extension
card
❑
AUD_EXT/Joystick 2 x 32 pin header for connection to the Sound Blaster Audigy card
❑ One 2 x 5 pin Internal SB1394 connector for connection to the Sound Blaster Audigy card
❑
One 6-pin SB1394 connector/port on rear bracket for connection to the external Audigy Drive
❑
One 44-pin DB connector for connection to the external Audigy Drive
❑
One 15-pin DB Joystick/MIDI connector attached to the Audigy Extension cable
External Audigy
Drive
Inputs and outputs on
front panel
❑
Two RCA jacks for coaxial SPDIF input and output
❑
One headphone output with auto detection via ¼” stereo jack with volume control
The 6-pin SB1394 connector/
port has a 2 watt maximum
power output. Connect only one
high power usage device such as
an IEEE 1394 hard disk and
CD-RW drive to this port unless
it is self-powered.