Two little problems....

[Paddy]

yes, but you cant configure the cd audio for the two drives independantly, can you?

[Gurm]

Paddy:

You can configure the two volume levels independently. If not with Windows' mixer then with Creative's mixer - go get the latest SB32 drivers.

Also, as for the CDR Issue... the version of EZ-CD that comes with CD Drives is utter and complete crap. Now, having said that... the problem is the ASPI layer. When you installed the old-ass POS version that came with your drive, you got an ancient ASPI layer. Installing some other proggies updated that layer, making it incompatible with EZ-CD 3.0, which was rectified when you updated to 3.5. However, CDRWin again updated the layer on ya. You need to get Adaptec's latest ASPI layer from their site, and/or get EZ-CD 4.0 to fix this problem.

- GUrm

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[Paddy]

Two little problems....

Perhaps you could help?

• I have two CD drives, both with a CD-audio cable going into my AWE32. However, the output of one of my drives has dramatically dropped. I can hardly hear anything from it at all now.
  I have not tried swapping the cables yet (sorry)...
• I have a Creative 2024e CD-RW. I installed the Easy CD creator which came with it. Since then I have installed other CDR software, and whenever I do, the Adaptec software fails to recognise my drive.
  I dont know what to do... I installed the 3.0 to 3.5 upgrade patch (which fixe the problem), but since then i have installed CDRwin and the problem has manifested again. Unfortunately i have just moved and i think I have binned the origional installation CD.

Any ideas?

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Cheers in advance, Patrick

[The PIT]

You have checked the volume level on the soundblaster by clicking on the speaker ?

[Paddy]

Sorry,
You can configure the drives independantly through \control pannel\multimedia...
- that does not fix the problem.

I already have the latest ASPI layer. I think that the solution would be to get a copy of the EZCD 4.x

What do you think?

[Alegria]

Hi Paddy, do the drives connect to the same PHYSICAL CD input on the soundblaster? Even though there are several different connectors on the AWE32 for CD-ROM audio input, they are not independent from each other. There is a problem with input level mismatches if you connect two CD-ROM drives to the same physical input. That makes the volume of the drives drop. If that is the case, there are line level decoupling devices on the market.
I will check for the appropriate website of the manufacturer. Just read about it yesterday.

Regards, Alegria

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The pump don't work, 'cause the vandals took the handle...
Bob Dylan

[Alegria]

Hi Paddy, just found the source for a solution of your problem #1.
Have a look at the picture below and get your soldering iron ready if this applies to you.



Helpful?

Regards, Alegria



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The pump don't work, 'cause the vandals took the handle...
Bob Dylan

[Paddy]

I have two input on the card. They are for different connectors.

• an flat black one
• a small white one

Not very descriptive!


[This message has been edited by Paddy [MU] (edited 01 April 2000).]

[Jord]

I've got those two connectors as well, Patrick, but use one of them for my modem, (the black one) and the other for my cd-rom.

I don't think that both of them are capable of playing sound at the same time. I was already wondering why you have two cd-roms in your machine, but that aside

Jord.

[Alegria]

The black one is a 4 pin MPC-2 connector with a pinout of LGGR (left Ground Ground right) while the white one has a pinout of LGR N/A. The connectors are physically connected together thus if you use both input jacks ther will be a mismatch. building the little voltage divider thing shown above will solve the problem.

Alegria

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The pump don't work, 'cause the vandals took the handle...
Bob Dylan

[Jorden]

Sorry to bring this one back up, but I might have found a solution for Patrick, or something to look for in his local audio-/PC store: 2 CD's to 1 Soundcard Splitter MPC Cable

Jord.

Edit: Thanks to Greebe for that page It has great prices for all kinds of cables and other stuff!!

[This message has been edited by Jorden (edited 10 April 2000).]

[Paddy]

Cheers Jord,
Although the cable is not the problem.
I have two cables, two outputs, two inputs.
It did work. Nevermind - i supose you cant listen to two cds at once!

Id be interested if you know you to fix the CDRW problem though?
;D

Patrick