Connect front audio to SB Live! 5.1

[Marke522]

Hi, and thanks for reading.

I have an older Sound Blaster Live, I think it was actually a Platinum, because it has the Audio Extension ( Digital I/O ) connector for an I/O card or Drive Bay.

I have 8 wires from the front a tower that I would like to connect to this card if possible. I have googled around for a bit and havn't been able to find any documents that lable the pins, but I have a diagram of the card so you'll know excatly what I'm talking about.

The wires from the tower have little pins that read:

Return R
Spkout R
Ground
Mic-In
Return L
Spkout L
Ground
Mic BIAS

I've seen a diagram a few years back, but I didn't have this card until last month.

Thanks, Mark

Sound Card.bmp

 

[airfoil]

You wouldn't be referring to the cale that looks like am IDE cable, like the one on this page, would you?

That cable connects the card to the Live! Drive, pictured here.

 

[Marke522]

Yeah, that's the card. I know what it's supposed to be used for. I was hoping I could plug the tower audio and mic wires into some of those pins, because I don't have the Live! Drive, but I don't think so.

I did see this on another site.

Pin-Outs
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 GPDIFO#0 SPDIF Out signal
18 GND Ground
19 SPDIFO#1 SPDIF Out signal
20 GND Ground
21 GND Ground
22 SPDIFO 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 no pin
30 KEY no pin
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

None of these like what I need or want. Guess I'll have to find a new way to connect my headphones.