Internal Audio Cable for ATI All In Wonder 9800 Pro

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Peter

Where can I get an audio cable that goes from the internal "CD Out" audio
connector on the ATI All In Wonder 9800 Pro video card to an internal
audio connector on my P4C800E Deluxe? This cable is mentioned on page 51
of the AIW9800 user's guide but it says "not included."

I thought a standard audio cable used to connect a CD drive audio out to
the motherboard might work but the connectors on those cables are
physically larger than the connector on the ATI card.

Peter
 
I "think" one like this will work. If I recall correctly, the cable you
need has to have identical four-holed locking connectors on both ends of the
cable. Both ends are of the type that plugs into the Audio Out jack of any
standard computer CD ROM drive. When I built my system last November I had
to scrounge around in the junk parts box a while before I located one,
because most CD audio cables I've used normally have a smaller, narrower,
nonlocking four-holed connector on the end that plugs into the sound card.

If nothing else, you might consider splicing together two correctly-ended CD
audio cables after clipping off the unusable ends.

http://www.amamax.com/cdaudb941blkblkcdad.html

Good luck,

Herb
 
I thought that type of cable would work but it doesn't. I tried the cable
that currently runs from the audio out connector on one of my CD/DVD
drives to the motherboard but neither end physically fits the "CD Audio"
connector on the ATI card.

Were you able to find a cable that works with the AIW 9800 Pro or did you
have to make one?

Peter
 
For the benefit of anyone else who may be following this...

I called ATI and what I need is a white-to-black audio cable. All of the
audio cables I tried are black-to-black and they do not fit the connector
on the ATI card.

Peter
 
DOH!

Sorry Peter, I erred. The cable I described (black to black) that I
recalled having trouble finding last November when I built my system was
the CD-ROM ANALOG AUDIO OUT to motherboard CD IN cable. IT'S the one with
identical, locking connectors.

The cable you need that connects the motherboard's AUX IN to the AIW CD
OUT is black to white, as you noted. (Locking black end goes to the
motherboard, the narrower white end goes to the video card.)

Sorry for the misinformation.

Herb
 
Why do you want to connect the CD out to the sound card? What would be the
advantage of doing this, the connect to the sound card Line In seems to work
for anything I want it to.

Anon
 
The technique described helps overcome a limitation of the motherboard's
on-board sound if you want to do video capture AND drive more than one pair
of speakers.

The on-board sound built into the OP's motherboard (ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe)
can only drive one set of speakers if the external LINE IN (blue) port is
tasked with inputting the audio from your camcorder via the AIW 9800's video
capture cable. But if you free up this external port by jumping the video
card's internal CD OUT port to the motherboard's AUX IN, the ASUS sound
chip's software allows you to re-role the external LINE IN jack to instead
drive a second set of rear speakers. (You just have to remember to enable
AUX as the audio recording source when you're capturing video to avoid
making a silent movie. And annoyingly, there will always be a yellow
exclamation point in your tray whenever AUX rather than MICROPHONE is
selected as the recording input source.)

Herb
 
Thanks for the response. I won't need it.

Herb Crites said:
The technique described helps overcome a limitation of the motherboard's
on-board sound if you want to do video capture AND drive more than one pair
of speakers.

The on-board sound built into the OP's motherboard (ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe)
can only drive one set of speakers if the external LINE IN (blue) port is
tasked with inputting the audio from your camcorder via the AIW 9800's video
capture cable. But if you free up this external port by jumping the video
card's internal CD OUT port to the motherboard's AUX IN, the ASUS sound
chip's software allows you to re-role the external LINE IN jack to instead
drive a second set of rear speakers. (You just have to remember to enable
AUX as the audio recording source when you're capturing video to avoid
making a silent movie. And annoyingly, there will always be a yellow
exclamation point in your tray whenever AUX rather than MICROPHONE is
selected as the recording input source.)

Herb
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So that the connection from the video card audio output to the motherboard
audio input can be entirely internal rather than needing an patch cord
running behind the PC.

Peter
 
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