Connecting santa cruz to front-panel

[beefkake]

For anybody who has a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card, you'll notice there is a 10-pin Mic/Headphone connector on the board. It was apparently added specifically for Dell to connect to the front-panel audio of Dell machines. They do not offer a pin-layout, and provide no support for this function for non-Dell machines.

Has anybody successfully connected those pins to a Sonata case (or any other case)? Does anybody know the pin layout?

Thanks. Also, if anybody knows of a decent PCI sound card that actually comes with a standard connector to front-panel audio, I'd love to know about it... (I can't believe they don't include these!)

 

[beefkake]

It really stinks that none of the video cards out there seem to support front-panel audio I received this reply from Creative Labs when I added it as a suggestion on their website:

Thank you for your suggestion for the soundcard. Do understand that most
of the casings that provides front panel audio jack are designed mainly
for onboard sound on motherboards, and there are many variations to the
connection.
I hope you understand as well, that connecting the connectors available
on the soundcard to the front casing audio jack may cause damage to the
soundcard as well.

 

[AmberClad]

Originally posted by: beefkake
It really stinks that none of the video cards out there seem to support front-panel audio I received this reply from Creative Labs when I added it as a suggestion on their website:

Thank you for your suggestion for the soundcard. Do understand that most
of the casings that provides front panel audio jack are designed mainly
for onboard sound on motherboards, and there are many variations to the
connection.
I hope you understand as well, that connecting the connectors available
on the soundcard to the front casing audio jack may cause damage to the
soundcard as well.

You got schooled .

 

[Ike0069]

Yea, you won't be able to use the front audio ports on the Sonata for anything but onboard sound.

 

[beefkake]

Um, I did? I saw it as a cop out on their part. I still don't see any reason why they couldn't provide pins on their cards just like the pins on motherboards with onboard sound. If you can do it on a mainboard, why not a pci card? The cases just give you the cables, you can hook them up anyway you want. And, there is an Intel standard connection.

I think they don't do it because it would make their overpriced platinum edition cards that come with front-panel 5.25" control centers less valuable, since much of the same function could be transferred to the cases.