From: Alan Dowds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 9:20 AM
Subject: MD: MD and Creative Soundblaster Platinum
> Does anyone have any experience with the SB Live Platinum, and LiveDrive
II?
> I though it would be ideal for MD - optical ins & outs, etc etc
Yep. I have one that I use daily.
> Sadly, I'm having awful trouble getting it to output digitally
>From the LiveDrive2 optical ports? Pull the plug out of the optical out -
you should see a red light. If you don't then you may have forgotton to
connect the power to the LiveDrive, or may not have connected the ribbon
cable to the sound card. If the ribbon cable is there, check it is connected
to the correct pat of LiveDrive2 - there are two identical looking points to
connect the cable, but one is input and one is output. You could also try
plugging headphones into the headphone socket on the LiveDrive to see if you
have sound.
Digital output is enabled all the time the card is on, even when running
games.
> recognise my
> CD-ROM drive
THe CD-ROM drive is controlled by Windows - I assume you mean that you just
can't hear the CDs? If you run the CD-Player program in Windows, will it
seem to play a CD but without any sound? If so then this is a simple matter
of your CD ROM drive just not having a digital output, in which case you
need to connect using analogue cables instead.
> or do anything really. The software doesn't recognise audio
> CDs, I can't get any internal SPDIF input from my CD and it basically
> doesn't seem to work.
Not getting internal SPDIF input to the card usually implies there is no
SPDIF output from the CD-ROM drive, or you have the connector the wrong way
round.
> Normal windows noises and DirectX works okay, games
> seem fine.
If you have your speakers plugged into the main card and it is working, this
supports the likelyhood you have not connected your LiveDrive correctly. I
would open up the PC and double check all the connections.
> My CD is a generic 36x (Ultima Electronics). Could that be the problem?
The
> CD has what looks like a SPDIF out connector (which fits the SB Live
cable),
> but it isn't marked as such, so may not be at all.
If it is unmarked, that may be because it isn't connected inside the CD-ROM
drive. Most CD-ROMs have the connector present because it is part of the
standard design of the casing, but not all have it connected to anything, so
not all of them work. You can use analogue cables in the same way you
connected to your old card if this is the case.
Hope this helps!
Magic
--
"Creativity is more a birthright than an acquisition, and the power of sound
is wisdom and understanding applied to the power of vibration."
Location : Portsmouth, England, UK
Homepage : http://www.mattnet.freeserve.co.uk
EMail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-----------------------------------------------------------------
To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word
"unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
