ViRuS2k

Is this even possible, would be awsome if it was.

here is the pickle

DFI LP NF4 Sli-DR boards come with a SPDIF Coaxal out on the board aswell as a cable you can plug in to the board that has a SPDIF Opticl out on it

is it possible to wire this cable to the Audigy 2`s SPDIF IO Pins!

the cable consists of 3 wires, Red , White , and Green

is this possible if so has anyone done it and how would i go about doing it so i can get SPDIF out from this card to my Digital Sony Decoder

dj_stick

i personally did this with my gigabyte one, check the motherboard manual for the pinout for the header, that will give you the pin assignment for the cable, you can then swap the pins around to work with the audigy 2's ad_ext

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ViRuS2k

nice i guess your the guy to talk to about sorting this out then
ok i will check my manual and tell you what the colors on the cables do, then you can tell me what i do next like wich 3 wires go where on the pinouts on the audigy 2

also any tips would be great like what could i use to secure the wires to the audigy2 pins without solder could i just tie them lol like wrap the wires around them then stick a blob of bluetak on the top of the pins to stop the wires moveing about or how about sticking the wires though those clip on type things you use to change your hdd to cable select or slave or master ect and then i can push them on top of the pins ect....

any help on this would be great help to me, first i will repost back later with the wires and what does what ect.

ViRuS2k

ok mate here is the pin layout on the spdif cable i have

Red wire : +5v
Whire wire : Spdif Out
Green wire : Gnd, im guessing this is the ground wire

now i need to wire those to the audigy 2 Spdif IO pins
but what do i connect them to, diagram would be sweet aswell as any tips on how to connect them without solder.....

regards.

ViRuS2k

Continued from above:

here is the diagram of the cable i have with spdif out and the wires on the other end and what there for.

Red wire : +5v
Whire wire : Spdif Out
Green wire : Gnd, im guessing this is the ground wire

now here is what i did the problem is when i did it and booted my system up my audigy 2 card isnt being seen by my computer, the pc doesnt seem to see the audigy 2 hardware of the card lol so i cant install the drivers to test.

here is what i hooked up not knowing if i have it wrong or anything but something must be wrong.............

here is a picture of the pins and there correct locations im guessing this is a audigy 2zs card but the layout of the pins im hopeing is the same as the layout in the plain audigy 2 sound card.



Red wire : +5v - i hooked this up to pin 1 in the picture above
Whire wire : Spdif Out - I hooked this up to pin 9 in the picture above
Green wire : Gnd, im guessing this is the ground wire - i hooked this up to pin 7 as any gnd should work right as its only a ground wire.....

well thats what i did, but i was reading somewhere that im ment to fake the drive or something im not sure about that but what do i do there and if you know what i have done wrong let me know as im stuck......

i must have done something wright becuse you know the end of the wire the spdif input on the cable is glowing red like its getting the correct power or something but without your help im stumped

ViRuS2k

OMG IT WORKS

unplugged the card and replugged it in and WOW it works
im getting DIGITALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL WOOOT this is awsome hehe

dj_stick

sorry for the late replay, i was in bed

glad you got it to work.

The method i used was to grab an unused front panel audio cable, take the plastic bit which the cables connected to, and use that to secure the gigabyte's cables into the correct orientation, just so there's no chance of the pins bridging and burning out the card

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ViRuS2k

its ok mate i forgive you hehe
the cable i made was professional no chance in the wires bridgeing
i have a new question for you.

whats the best drivers for me to use on my audigy 2 i have heard i can use the audigy 4 drivers on it lol but would all the functions work ect ????
and becuse im useing x64 would these drivers work on it or install on it thats if they worked on it in the first place hehe.

regards.

dj_stick

i haven't looked into these "modded" drivers

from what i see all they do is add updated software designed for higher end cards, it seems some features get disabled/are missing, but i'm not sure if those work on x64

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