Ye olde SB Live!

[SteveC]

Hi all,

Cast your minds back to 2000 or so when the Live! was all the rage. I had a SB Live! 1024 (OEM card, but has the yellow digital output). Now back then when I used this card I made up a cable to give me the digital coax out and I'm sure there was some driver hack that made it think it was a 5.1 or something.

Now anyway my brother's onboard sound on his Dell PC is playing up and so I dug out this old Live! card to give to him, but I want to get all the outputs working if possible.

So, anyone remember what I'm on about? Also need the pin out to make up the coax digital output.

Cheers!
Steve

[SteveC]

Oh found this which is a start:

AUD_EXT connector pin assignments

Note

ADC stands for Analog-to-Digital Converter

Pin Name Description
1 VCC +5V power supply
2 VCC +5V power supply
3 GND Ground
4 AC97CLK 24.5 MHz clock output
5 GND Ground
6 GP_SPDIFIN#2 SPDIF input signal
7 GND Ground
8 GND Ground
9 SPDIFO#3 SPDIF Out signal
10 GPO1 General Purpose Output #1
11 GPO2 General Purpose Output #2
12 GND Ground
13 GPO0 General Purpose Output #0
14 GND Ground
15 GP_SPDIFIN1 SPDIF Input signal
16 GND Ground
17 SPDIFO#0 SPDIF Out signal

18 GND Ground
19 SPDIFO#1 SPDIF Out signal
20 GND Ground
21 GND Ground
22 SPDIFO#2 SPDIF Out signal
23 GPI0 Digital Input (GP Input 0; Reserved)
24 GPI1 Digital Input, (GP Input 1; Reserved)
25 OUTMIDI MIDI Output
26 GND Ground
27 INMIDI MIDI Input
28 GND Ground
29 KEY
30 KEY
31 ADCSDO2 I2S audio data input.
32 GND Ground
33 ADCSDO1 I2S audio data input.
34 GND Ground
35 ADCSDO0 I2S audio data input.
36 GND Ground
37 I2SCLK I2S serial bit clock.

38 GND Ground
39 I2SFS Frame sync.
40 GND Ground

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But that's the big 40 pin header on the card, I only need the digital out headphone style jack on the back plane of the card

Ah also got this: http://alive.singnet.com.sg/tech/digital-io.htm

so answered my own post apart from the driver thing - will install later and see what happens

[SteveC]

Oh so the card only ever did 5.1 in passthrough (from a DVD for example), and 4.0 otherwise http://alive.singnet.com.sg/tech/faq/

[rylan]

Yeah that card didn't have a 5.1 digital surround decoder processor so its just passthrough from that big header, or downmix to the analog front/rear outputs.

[Paddy]

I think I've got a 5.1 you can have Steve. Gimme a PM if you are interested.