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obiwan   10-12-2003 at 12:12:23 AM

How do I connect front panel audio jacks on a PC case (phones+mic) to a SoundBlaster Live! 5.1? Most new motherboards have a 9-pin audio connector (looks like a USB connector) for a front panel. Of course, SB Live! doesn't have such a connector. My PC case has a standard 9-pin connector as well as separate 7 wires: black, grey, yellow, brown, red, blue and green. The connector's pins are marked as follows (please view in monospaced font):
<PRE>
1
FP_MIC [x][x] GND
FP_VREF [x][x] +5V
PHONE_R [x][x] NC
NC [x][ ] key
PHONE_L [x][x] NC
</PRE>

My Creative SounBlaster Live! 5.1 Digital (model SB0220) has the following connectors:
SPDIF_IO (5 pins),
CD_SPDIF (2 pins),
AUX_IN (4 pins),
CD_IN (4 pins),
TAD (4 pins)
as well as a white 10-pin connector which is labeled "For Creative's Proprietary use" in the manual.

I'm not an electronics guru so the question is: what to plug where? Looks like I'm not the only one to face a problem like this, so if this is a dead end I want to know it for sure, if there's a hope, let's try to find a solution.

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Crashman   10-13-2003 at 09:13:15 AM
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TAD has both I/O but it's probably mono. You don't have any other outputs listed. Since the Live drive has a headphone jack, I know there's wires somewhere on the combined connector for it. Perhaps you can scour the web for more info?

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obiwan   10-13-2003 at 10:11:23 AM
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Unfortunately I don't have a connector for Live drive (20-pin?) and I haven't found any information regarding the other I/O pins on the Internet so far. So tech forums is my only hope.

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Anonymous   01-08-2009 at 05:13:05 PM
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Although this thread is rather old, I would like to post a final answer for everybody who is still looking for a way to connect thier anolog front audio panel to a SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 card:

:non: There's NO chance of connecting an analog front audio panel to an SB Live! 5.1 (SB0220) audio card!!! :cry:


According to the German website http://www.einhorn-net.de/spdif/index.html (which contains detailed information about the pin assignment of the internal SB connectors), neither the 40-pin AUD_EXT connector nor the 12-pin SPDIF_EXT plug offers analog in-/output! Designed for connectivity with the Live! DRIVE (a discrete front panel designed by Creative for exclusive use with SB cards), those connectors at best support digital (SPDIF) processing.

I hope this piece of information will help save a lot of googling and damaged sound cards (don't ask)... :na: Thanks to Ralf Einhorn for this final conclusion.

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