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cefoskey   12-11-2003 at 03:47:55 AM

With my new motherboard, an intel D865GBF, I no longer have onboard sound, and the Audigy 2 card I have lacks a MIDI game port. Since i used to use the onboard AC 97 game port on my old motherboard, and the sound thru the SB, what can I do now to get a port? Can i run an additional PCI soundcard to use the port while maintaining sound output though the Audigy?

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Crashman   12-11-2003 at 07:20:39 AM
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Are you certain there isn't a gameport header (unused) on the card, ready to accept a breakout cable? Usually these are 16 pins organized as 2 rows of 8 pins, and use a standard 15-pin breakout cable.

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Ris3n_Da3mon   12-12-2003 at 06:10:48 AM
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don't the audigys have a firewire port?

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Crashman   12-12-2003 at 06:44:23 AM
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I've been seeing these boxes advertized that put 2 PS/2, 1 Parallel, 2 serial, and 1 game port on 1 USB 2.0 connection. Don't remember which places sold them.

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cefoskey   12-12-2003 at 07:10:54 PM
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The pinouts are missing for the breakout bracket.....the solder holes are there, but no pins.

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Crashman   12-12-2003 at 10:03:28 PM
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Then other associated parts are likely missing as well. The game port is also a midi port, I wonder if you could adapt a joystick to use the midi port on the LiveDriveII?

Anyway, you can use a cheap soundcard as a gameport only, or you can buy a USB adapter

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cefoskey   12-12-2003 at 11:53:18 PM
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Yeah I have that gameport bracket from my previous motherboard. So if I install say a cheap SB16, I should still get my sound output through the audigy, correct? I would assume one of them would have to be disabled in device manager.

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Crashman   12-13-2003 at 05:05:19 AM
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Actually you should get sound from both soundcards if you don't disable the sound features on the second card. But since you don't need the sound features of the second card, you could disable them in device manager.

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