First post, by SScorpio
I'm attempting to have a best of both worlds Win 98 build that has real A3D 2.0 and EAX. I have a Diamond MX300 and I'm using its expansion header to connect its output to another card digitally.
I previously had this working correctly with an SB Live 5.1 (SB0060) into a Live Drive IR (SB0100) after having to do some continuity tracing and figuring out jumpers to allow the SPDIF IN connection on the Live Drive's Digital IO connector to bridge to the AUD_AUX connect that connects to the sound card. For anyone that needs it JP10 which is a two-pin header will bridge Pin 15 of the Digital IO and AUD_AUX to enable SPDIF1_In, JP8 is an 8 Pin header that bridges SPDIF2_In to various ports, and jumping Pin 5 and 6 will bridge Pin 6 from Digital IO to AUD_AUX.
I'm now attempting to get this configuration to work with an SB Audigy which still has the same AUD_AUX connector. I'm using an Audigy EAX Advanced HD (SB0090). The Drive these came with appears to be the same as the Live Drive IR with the addition of a Firewire port that uses a separate cable this Audigy Drive is the (SB0100D).
I verified SPDIF Out/In is working to the Audigy's CD Digital In port from the MX300's output. I'm now attempting to have this work once again with the Live Drive, but I wasn't getting any sound. Interestingly, I tried changing the Digital Out settings from MX300 from 44KHz to 32 or 48KHz and I get a lot of static noise but can at times hear the looping sound I'm pushing through. This causes me to believe that 44KHz is the correct setting, but something is being filtered within the Live Drive itself. I attempted wiring directly to the Audigy, but couldn't receive anything, it appears the Live Direct is detected somehow, and the Windows Driver disables IO based on that.
Does anyone have any insight on this?