Razer Barracuda AC-1 - Some questions

I just picked up a Razer Barracuda AC-1 from the recent Woot. I installed it, got the beta drivers for vista, and so far so good. I have a few questions, however. I am using the Audio splitter that was provided in the box. I know very little about audio related things, so please, bear with my ignorance.

1. My mic does not seem to be working. All I did was drop the card into the PCI slot, and ignored the plugs in the front (CD-In and Aux-in). Do I perhaps need to actually hook those up to something?

2. I have the Logitech Z-5500 Speakers. Both the sound card and the speakers support optical, what kind of cabling do I need to make this magic happen?

Thanks in advance.

Question #2:

You, Sir, need a Toslink optical cable. They can be readily had on ebay for very little money.

No answer for you on the other, sorry.

Haha excellent. I was looking at the wiki pages on Toslink, but nothing specifically popped out to me and said "You need this!" I think I'll grab one from www.monoprice.com.

Any takers on the Mic issue?

I haven't loaded vista yet,(lazy) but if it's like XP check your hardware manager and see your sound/audio devices check your mic and it should allow you to pick, use the drop down menu and pick your card. Congrats on your card. I have one as well, not as bad as everybody tends to make it.

BrotherLen said:

I haven't loaded vista yet,(lazy) but if it's like XP check your hardware manager and see your sound/audio devices check your mic and it should allow you to pick, use the drop down menu and pick your card. Congrats on your card. I have one as well, not as bad as everybody tends to make it.

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Thanks! It seems pretty nice so far. Anythings better than onboard sound though I'd say? In the sound options, theres a specific option for the MIC on the sound card. It currently says "No Jack Information Available" = wtf? Its plugged into the same dongle that the rest of the audio is, and that works fine. *Scratches head*

Also, as far as this Toslink cable, I see there are miniToslink cables and varying regular sized and combo ones. Which flavor do I need? The connectors on the speakers and on the sound card look different.


Edit: Nevermind on the MIC. I just had to set it as the default input in the sound options. It was looking for line in from the sound card. Cabling question still stands!

Any takers on #2? What variety of Toslink do i need? Thanks.

any Toslink cable will work. you can get some cheap ones off monoprice that will work just find.