[ale] continuing SoundBlaster install problem....

[Courtney Thomas]

They have their own power supply [12v wall wart, obviously small speakers].

Thanks Jeff,

Courtney


Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> Are you trying to drive unpowered speakers with a line output?
> 
> Courtney Thomas wrote:
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>>I now have the SoundBlaster 2.0 card installed and the drivers load 
>>correctly but the sound coming out of the speakers with maximum volume 
>>is barely audible.
>>
>>Ruling out speakers, CDROM and CD as being the problem,... when the 
>>speakers are plugged directly into the CDROM player, the sound is OK.
>>
>>I have connected a cable with 4 pin plugs from the CDROM's analog 
>>connection which apparently cannot be done incorrectly since the two 
>>interior pins are both ground.
>>
>>That leaves the CDROM-to-SoundBlaster connection which is marked line 
>>out on the card and is an expected 4 pins. I have tried this connection 
>>both ways, i.e. rotating the connector 180 deg. and still no sound.
>>
>>I don't have any docs on the card and Creative has nothing on it's site, 
>>it being legacy and costing them a fortune to leave the docs online  :-)
>>
>>Anyway, there are several jumper pins on the card whose purpose I don't 
>>know. FM and VOICE are not jumpered. Of 22X and 24X, 22X is jumpered. 
>>The 2 interior [of 4 total] pins marked Microphone are jumpered. 
>>And...there are several other pin sets, some jumpered, some not, but 
>>they are not functionally described with onboard markings.
>>
>>If anyone has one of these ISA SoundBlaster cards functioning, I'd 
>>appreciate the necessary missing revelation  :-)
>>
>>Cordially,
>>Courtney
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