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Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 + Drive IR

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First post, by Piemur44

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Hello everyone!

I am pretty happy with my current win95 OSR2.5 setup :
P3 1ghz
256mo ram
cf card 32gb
Matrox Milenium G450 pci
3Dfx Voodoo 2 12mo
Creative Live! 5.1 (SB0060 if I remember correctly)

I decided all of a sudden to purchase a front rack Live Drive IR with the cable and remote controller on flea market. was quite expensive at 35euros but I though it would have been easier to plug my large headphone on the front.
I plugged everything to the card and installed the floppy current connector.
It freezed windows during boot and I had to reinstall everything fron Windows 95 to all drivers and softwares. Unfortunately the drive does not recognize when I plug something in. (From what I read in manual the switch should be automatic from rear speakers to front rack headphones).

The card delivered from the original package was CT4760. Could it be so different from mine that the header on the card is physically identical but not functionnal?

Thank you for the help 😀

Reply 1 of 2, by SScorpio

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You said Live Drive IR so the pcb is marked with model SB0010? I'm running that version on my Live 5.1 SB0100 as they were bundled together. Maybe try out the Live 5.1 WDM driver on Vogons Drivers and see if that helps at all?

AFAIK there were two Live drive interfaces. One was used with the Live and Audigy, and the other was used with the Audigy 2 and X-Fi. And the drives are interchangeable IE (any Live or Audigy work, and any Audigy 2 and X-Fi work). I upgraded my Live 5.1 to an Audigy 1 for slightly cleaner sound and the Live Drive is still working.

I also suggest checking the other inputs and outputs to see if anything is working on the card. There are some jumps, but I'm not aware of a resource that maps out everything. I did end up probing my card with a multimeter and tracing out the pins for the SPDIF input. In my PC I'm running the Audigy as the primary sound card with a CD ROM connected to the digital input on the sound card itself, and a separate Vortex 2 sound card who's SPDIF output header is connected to the Live Drive. That lets me mix all kinds of crazy audio configurations without swapping around cables. The Live Drive's digital in even still works as I used a MIDI module with SPDIF out.

Reply 2 of 2, by Piemur44

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I feel stupid because as I opened the pc case I found that the floppy power connector was not connected to the drive. Now it works perfectly with the SB0060. I have yet to make the remote control works but that is another story.

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