[ale] continuing SoundBlaster install problem....

[Calvin Harrigan]

Courtney Thomas wrote:

>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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If I understand you properly, you are not getting any sound from the 
cd.  What about other sound sources?  I think on that sound blaster, the 
pins for the audio are non standard.  I think it was L G R G.  You might 
have to rearrange the pins in the connector.  Take the advice with a 
grain of salt.  See http://www.aesystems.com/cdrom_audio_connectors.html
http://www.epanorama.net/documents/pc/cdrom_audio_wire.html

Calvin...