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Chris Lemon
Okay, here's a weird one...of course, when presented to ATI via email, they
were utterly useless.(Granted, this is the bitchly time of year for tech
support as a whole, but I still expect them to at least READ my issue.)
I just got an AIW 9600 Pro, and since I already have a device (my tape deck)
plugged into the Line In port on my sound card, I wanted to use the 4-pin
CD-OUT connector on the AIW. So I went out and got a cable that had their
4-pin connector at one end and the 4-pin Molex connector for my Sound
Blaster Live Platinum 5.1 card at the other. Had to rearrange some of the
pin sockets to match the pinouts on the two cards (the AIW, according to
their documentation, is Ground-Left-Ground-Right, the SBLive is
Left-Ground-Ground-Right), and I was off and running.
Now, the SBLive has two Molex ports, one is called CD-IN, and the other,
AUX-IN. (There is a TAD port for a modem to plug into as well, but that's
not pertinent to this issue). The situation is, when I plug the AIW into the
CD-IN port, I get sound when I fire up the TV app. When I plug into AUX-IN,
nothing. (And yes, I've checked the mixer settings and the TV Tuner settings
and made sure everything was turned up and not muted and such.)
At first I thought the AUX-IN port was dead, but I called Creative this
morning, and they helped me force my CDROM drive to analog mode so we could
test both ports, and both ports tested fine, I could raise and lower the
volume of both, noticed sound cut out when I pulled the cable out, all of
it. So the ports on the SB Live are both operational.
So, once again, I know the CABLE works, because it works when I plug it into
CD-IN. I know the SOCKET works, because it works when I ran the CDROM into
it. And I know the AIW works 'cuz it's making sound. But the combination of
the three don't seem to like each other.
Does anyone know of a known issue with trying to SPECIFIALLY USE the
Auxillary channel of an SB Live to control the audio of the TV on the AIW
9600?
were utterly useless.(Granted, this is the bitchly time of year for tech
support as a whole, but I still expect them to at least READ my issue.)
I just got an AIW 9600 Pro, and since I already have a device (my tape deck)
plugged into the Line In port on my sound card, I wanted to use the 4-pin
CD-OUT connector on the AIW. So I went out and got a cable that had their
4-pin connector at one end and the 4-pin Molex connector for my Sound
Blaster Live Platinum 5.1 card at the other. Had to rearrange some of the
pin sockets to match the pinouts on the two cards (the AIW, according to
their documentation, is Ground-Left-Ground-Right, the SBLive is
Left-Ground-Ground-Right), and I was off and running.
Now, the SBLive has two Molex ports, one is called CD-IN, and the other,
AUX-IN. (There is a TAD port for a modem to plug into as well, but that's
not pertinent to this issue). The situation is, when I plug the AIW into the
CD-IN port, I get sound when I fire up the TV app. When I plug into AUX-IN,
nothing. (And yes, I've checked the mixer settings and the TV Tuner settings
and made sure everything was turned up and not muted and such.)
At first I thought the AUX-IN port was dead, but I called Creative this
morning, and they helped me force my CDROM drive to analog mode so we could
test both ports, and both ports tested fine, I could raise and lower the
volume of both, noticed sound cut out when I pulled the cable out, all of
it. So the ports on the SB Live are both operational.
So, once again, I know the CABLE works, because it works when I plug it into
CD-IN. I know the SOCKET works, because it works when I ran the CDROM into
it. And I know the AIW works 'cuz it's making sound. But the combination of
the three don't seem to like each other.
Does anyone know of a known issue with trying to SPECIFIALLY USE the
Auxillary channel of an SB Live to control the audio of the TV on the AIW
9600?