Hi
I have a Sound Blaster Live, model SB0060. The card works great.
The card is supposed to support 5.1 speakers; it has three outputs in the back. However, I cannot select 5.1 speakers in the drivers or surround mixer.
Am I missing something? I would like to use 5.1 speakers with this card.
Thanks for any idea.
Three outputs? Shouldn't it have five?
I think you need a TOSLink cable for the orange output.
https://www.amazon.ca/Digital-Audio-Cable-Opt … e/dp/B0002JFN1A
Jorpho wrote on 2021-04-15, 22:34:Three outputs? Shouldn't it have five? maxresdefault.jpg […]
Three outputs? Shouldn't it have five?
maxresdefault.jpgI think you need a TOSLink cable for the orange output.
https://www.amazon.ca/Digital-Audio-Cable-Opt … e/dp/B0002JFN1A
No, you have the top output which is digital out... uses a special breakout if I remember correctly.
Then you have two speakers each for three of the 3.5" plugs. Front should be one plug, rear should be another plug, and center/sub should be another plug.
Pretty sure they are labeled as such.
Also... which operating system and what drivers are you using?
yeah that's certainly not toslink, it's a mini-jack instead of the standard RCA connector but if i recall correctly it's possible to use this as a digital out via a simple mono adapter plug. i also seem to vaguely recall something about differing signal levels compared to standard though so maybe that might not be a good idea.
@OP, pretty sure you need to set the speaker config in windows, under win9x that would be under multimedia in control panel.
cyclone3d wrote on 2021-04-16, 00:08:Jorpho wrote on 2021-04-15, 22:34:Three outputs? Shouldn't it have five? maxresdefault.jpg […]
Three outputs? Shouldn't it have five?
maxresdefault.jpgI think you need a TOSLink cable for the orange output.
https://www.amazon.ca/Digital-Audio-Cable-Opt … e/dp/B0002JFN1ANo, you have the top output which is digital out... uses a special breakout if I remember correctly.
I have a set of speakers from Dell that uses such a cable to provide a 5.1 or 7.1 setup on a Dell motherboard with integrated sound. IIRC, it plugs into all the sound card's outputs, and then the signals are routed to a special hub that provides further distribution.
Thanks for the replies. I am using windows 98 and I can choose 5.0 in the OS settings, but not 5.1.
Third output is labeled 'digital / line out 3' this I why I still hope the card could work with 5.1.
maybe this article helps: http://ixbtlabs.com/articles/livetolive51/index.html you can see that they were able to engage 5.1 in surround mixer.
Unfortunately, this is it 🙁. The card is the model SB0060, however, it is installed with the device id of CT4670.
I guess I will need to buy an eeprom programmer, hopefully it will work to rewrite the eeprom on circuit.
why would the card install with a different device id though?
You actually just need the correct driver installer.
See here for a driver that supports the SB0060:
https://msfn.org/board/topic/115903-compilati … for-windows-9x/
You will need to create an account to download most stuff. However, in that post, it looks like everything is mirrored on mgdx.com
http://www.mdgx.com/sbdrv/
