Hi. Do I need to have the "tad", "cd in" and "aux in" wires hooked up to something for my desk top to play music using the soundblaster live card?

Hi,
What you need to do is connect (for example" Aux 1 send from the desk to the Left Input of the alesis. Then connect the Left and right output form the Alesis to Auxilery return 1 and 2. You can just use the left ouput and use aux return 1 if having mono effects is ok.

Go to SoundBlaster.Com and look there for the illustration of cards. Input the SoundBlaster live Value 5.1 in the search area and get the old drivers for that card.

hi david, check out the connection of the yellow and red wires on the back plug. yellow must be connected to a direct battery positive line(continuous positive), the red must be connected to a live wire from the ignition switch OR from a point that is +12v live once the car is started(switched positive). also make sure that that the ground connection is a direct good connection to the body of the vehicle!! make sure that the remote wire(blue) is insulated if you not using an automatic aerial or external amplfier. good luck.cheers.

the beeping can be turned off for AUX to have sound u need to have something hooked to it if there is no sound it could be blown or incorrectly connected speakers or even a blown fuse also try RESETTING the unit

Hi

the issue is that you have not connected a 3-4 pin wire from the CD drive directly to the sound card.

You will hear sound if you connect your speakers or head phones to the small plug in front of the cd drive.

You will need a audio cable between CD drive and the Sound card.

here is the cable: http://www.pcpartscollection.com/audcabforcdr1.html

sold on the above page for example, or available locally I'm sure in almost any computer repairer. or www.ebay.com



Show this picture or say that you need a audio cable between CD drive and sound card. they will know what you mean (or should)

You need to connect this wire on the cd drive back, next to the other connectors (it has 4 pins)

it also reads AUDIO


other end goes to the sound card, where there are 4 pins aswell, should say CD in or AUX.

go to the sound blaster site and download the most recent software it should correct it..
http://support.creative.com/Products/Products.aspx?catid=1

Probable that it IS Outdated. CD input May be to Hi or Low for "OLDER" Units

Have you tried updating the drivers?

You can find Sound Blaster driver updates here:

http://www.soundblaster.com/support/

Good luck!

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My only sulutionis to buy a external sound card that has 2 sound ports on cd in aux in place the cd+rw on the cd aux in and have the dvd burner on cd in disable on board sound for the external sound card to have the IRQ setting of the on board sound card the best soundcard to go for is soundblaster live or any one in this range as you are going to play dvds on pc the best program for this is Powerdvd from Cyberlink