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Soundblaster Live Headphone to AC97 front panel

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First post, by tomcattech

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So I'm trying to get my case's headphone jack connected to the monstrous 40 pin header on the Soundblaster Live: SB0060
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I've got a standard AC97 pinout going to the front of my case:
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Correct me if I'm wrong but to just get the headphone jack to work I should need: Headphone Left Signal, Headphone Right Signal, Ground
I've identified the correct wires via the AC97 but the pinout on the SB060 has me stumped.... there is only "General Purpose Outputs"
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GP01
GP02

Any ideas here?

I've got the requisite spare headers, pins and ribbon cable to make it work... just figuring out logistics at this point.

Any assistance would be appreciated.... Thanks!

Reply 1 of 1, by NeoG_

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The LiveDrive connector and AC97 are not pin compatible. The AC97 plug expects analog audio and the LiveDrive connector only works with digital audio (SPDIF and I2S). The LiveDrive bay has a built in crystal semiconductor codec to handle the analog connections.

So theoretically if an adapter did exist, it would require power, have it's own microphone and headphone amplifiers and also contain it's own DACs and ADCs - Which is essentially a clone of the LiveDrive

Alternatively, you could use an AC97 breakout cable to plug the front panel connector into the rear jacks on the sound card by looping out of of an expansion card slot. Not clean but it would work.

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