Ah the old live-to-live5.1 hardware mod article. I actually modded a few live cards back in the day. Thanks for posting the link, I had lost it.
I did back in the day a similar mod for various models of x-fi cards, see http://www.hardwareheaven.com/community/threa … -needed.199890/ (I am jh1523 on that forum), here's also someone else with more detailed info on how to practically do it http://xfimod.blogspot.com/
And the list of hardware capabilities, which was in the meantime removed from creative's site, is still available thanks to the Internet Archive https://web.archive.org/web/20100406044856/ht … aster/X-FiList/
I/O, I/O,
It's off to disk I go,
With a bit and a byte
And a read and a write,
I/O, I/O