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First post, by KenzieAon

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So I got this old Audigy 2 ZS and its platinum drive. It didn't come with its IDE cable, so I got one somewhere else and lined up the pins (red wire on the side of the SPDIF). I learned I could do that from forum posts on here

Issue is I can't seem to get any audio out of the drive. I CAN get audio out of the speakers, mind you.

I don't know if the drive is supposed to come up in windows or not. Drivers and software installed fine but, again, I don't know if I should look out for any Drive specific things.

Any knowledge that anyone has that could help?

Windows 7 machine, second Windows XP SP3.
Xeon x5680, Quadro 5000, 12GB RAM, if it helps.

Reply 1 of 2, by nhattu1986

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to use the IDE cable with the live drive!, you need the 40 pin not the later 80 pin cable
for the drive, i don't think there are any driver to install, you may need to select the correct output but my memory is not that great so ymmv

Reply 2 of 2, by Intel486dx33

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You need to hook up the Molex power too.
Straight 40 pin IDE ribbon works.
You can buy on eBay.
Hook up the red line with #1 on drive or little triangle
You also need the Black cable for FireWire but might not be needed for basic functions.

In Win-10 or Win-11
You can use the driver from Audigy RX for win-10
Unzip package and use the Universal Win-10 driver.
https://support.creative.com/downloads/welcom … erType=1#type_1

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