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

Technical Support C-5
Limited Warranty
Creative Labs (Ireland) Limited (“Creative”) warrants to you, the original buyer and holder of
this warranty, as it stands in the accompanying warranty card, that the hardware product will be
free of defects in materials and workmanship for a period of two (2) years after the date of
purchase, or such other period as may be expressly specified by Creative or required by
applicable law (“Warranty Period”).
Creative's entire liability and your remedy will be, at Creative’s sole discretion, the repair or
replacement (with the same or similar model) of any hardware or accompanying item(s) not
meeting the “Limited Warranty” explained above that is returned to Creative's authorised
distributor or dealer during the Warranty Period with a copy of your receipt.
What this warranty does
not cover
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Creative disclaims all other warranties and
conditions, expressed or implied, including the conditions of quality, merchantability or fitness
for a particular purpose with respect to the use of this product. Creative also disclaims any
obligation to support products for all operating environments - for example, by ensuring
interoperability with future versions of software or hardware. In no event shall Creative or its
licensors be liable for any indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss or for any lost
profits, savings or data arising from or relating to the use of this product, even if Creative or its
licensors have been advised of the possibility of such loss.
Specifically, this warranty does not cover failures of the product which result from accident,
abuse, misuse, alterations (by persons other than Creative or its authorized repair agents),
moisture, corrosive environments, shipping, high voltage surges, or abnormal working
conditions. This warranty does not cover normal wear and tear. You are specifically advised to
take a backup copy of any software provided with the Creative product for security purposes.
This warranty gives you specific
legal rights. You may have other
rights which vary from country to
country. Certain limitations in this
warranty are not permitted by the
jurisdiction of some countries, so
some limitations here may not
apply to you.