Soundblaster Live 5.1 Front panel

[doltrev]

I have a Soundblaster Live 5.1 audio card, and my case has the standard headphone and mic jacks in the front. The soundcard has what looks like an ide connector of pins that are there for some product they sell for way too much money, but i just want to know what pins are for mic and headphones and cannot find info on creatives website. If anyone knows which pins do what, it would be greatly appreciated, please help

 

[magnetik]

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[T-nm]

Yep I have an Audigy X-gamer original, and there are a lot of pins which I don't have a single clue of wtf they do.

 

[Mister X]

For those that don't know---------> This information is provided in the "hwinfo.hlp" file
Audigy/Live pinouts:
AUD_EXT connector pin assignments

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 SPDIFO#0 SPDIF Out signal

18 GND Ground
19 SPDIFO#1 SPDIF Out signal
20 GND Ground
21 GND Ground
22 SPDIFO#2 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
30 KEY
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



VOL_CTRL connector pin assignments (for PCI cards)

Pin Description I/O
1 VOLDECB In
2 GND -
3 VOLINCB In
4 GND

SPDIF_EXT connector pin assignments
For 12-pin SPDIF connector

Pin Description
1 SPDIFO0
2 GND
3 KEY
4 VCC
5 GND
6 SPDIFIN
7 NC
8 NC
9 SPDIFO1
10 GND
11 SPDIFO2
12 SPDIFO3


SPDIF_CONN connector pin assignments
For 6-pin SPDIF connector

Pin Description
1 SPDIFO0
2 GND
3 KEY
4 VCC
5 NC
6 NC

CD_IN/AUX_IN connector pin assignments

Pin Description I/O
1 Left Channel In
2 Ground -
3 Ground -
4 Right Channel In

 

[Mister X]

In case you haven't figured it out yet........
you can not connect your front pannel mic or headphone jack to any of those pins.
There are OEM versions of the Live and Audigy cards that have another header labeled JP1 for front pannel I/O's

1 - Analog Ground
2 - Analog Headphone Out Left
3 - Audio Backpanel Mute -- short to ground to mute the backpanel (when headphones are plugged in)
4 - Analog Headphone Out Right
5 - same as #3
6 - Mic input from front panel
7 - key pin (shouldn't be there)
8 - VREF out -- voltage reference for Mic
9 - MIC IN MUTE -- ground when mic isn't plugged in, +12VDC when mic is plugged in
10 - Audio cable detect -- will be ground when headphones are plugged in (not normally used)

 

[magnetik]

I have an old "original" LiveDrive panel painted silver (you can repaint it) if you want it.. just pay shipping. Doesn't have the digital connections.. but it has the mic and headphone jack. You can just use an IDE cable lined up perfectly if you don't have the cable. It will go over on the pins.. you just make sure they line up. I am using rounded cables on my a2 plat. right now.

 

[doltrev]

It turns out mine is the dell edition which has a front panel connector with the pins in the order mentioned a few posts up. Thankyou very much for posting which pins are what, and also for the offer for the livedrive.