CREATIVE Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum eX - Manual (Page 30)

Installing Hardware 2-5
5. Connect your CD-ROM or DVD drive’s analog audio output cable to the Audigy 2 Platinum eX card’s
Aux_IN connector.
6. If your CD-ROM or DVD drive has a digital SPDIF audio output connector, you may wish to skip Step
5 and use a two-pin digital audio cable (available separately) to connect the drive to the Audigy 2
Platinum eX card’s CD_SPDIF connector instead, for better sound quality.
Note: Audio can be sent to your computer through your CD or DVD drive’s IDE cable instead, through
a feature called Digital CD Audio Extraction. See “Digital CD Audio Extraction” below if you wish
to use this feature.
Digital CD Audio
Extraction To enable this feature in Windows Me or Windows 2000
(enabled by default in Windows XP), follow the steps below:
1. In Windows 2000/XP or Windows Me, click Start ->
Settings-> Control Panel -> System.
2. Select the Device Manager tab.
3. Double-click the CD-ROM or DVD-ROM icon. Double-
click the name of your drive.
4. In the Properties tab, click the “Enable Digital CD audio
for this CD-ROM device” checkbox to select it.
Windows 98 SE users can also
listen to audio CDs via Windows
Media Player 7.x or later, using
the Digital Playback option. Your
CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive must
support sustained digital reads.
Read the Media Player help for
more information.
Figure 2-6: Enabling Digital CD Audio in
Windows 2000
On a fresh installation of
Windows Me, you may not hear
audio from your CD-ROM drive
even after enabling Digital CD
Audio. To solve this, disable
Digital CD Audio and then restart
the computer. When the system
has restarted, re-enable Digital
CD Audio and restart the system
again.