Has anyone used the Creative optical input / output board?

[choddo]

Posted this on avsforum too, hoping someone can help a poor ignorant...

I'm using an SB Live and was just loaned the digital IO board that plugs into it.

I've plugged a TOSLink cable into the S/PDIF in but can't seem to get Goldwave (in this case) to recognise any sound. The list of potential input selections in the multimedia control panel includes;
MIDI Synth
CD Digital
"What U Hear"
TAD-In
Auxilary
Microphone
Line-In
CD Audio
Wave/MP3

but nothing specific to the digital board and I've tried all of them in case they're mis-named but they all have silence. Am I missing something (like half a cranium full?)

TIA
Chods

[MartyG]

Have you enabled the SP Dif input? Either on the sound card control panel or through the vol control recording input. Try that.

Regards
Marty

[choddo]

Hi, thanks for the suggestion. I've read a lot of pages about this tonight and found out that the card that was lent to me is actually a 3rd party product called the SB Digital Bracket III made by hoontech.com (korean DSP specialist) and that, from a US reseller site, there are multiple revs of this little board and that some revs work on some SBs and not others.

However... I also read that the digital boards are a "passive device" and you always get the SPDIF input option in the AudioHQ control panel even if you don't have a daughterboard installed. I just don't get that (latest SB Live drivers from creative) which is kind of strange. well, actually it's very strange.

[Freddo]

you could always email creative about it, they where pretty helpfull when i had some problems with my audigy, they take a while to respond though.

[choddo]

Thanks for the suggestions. Turned out to be a driver issue. The latest creative drivers don't have it... uninstalling them and letting XP install it's own worked!

I seem to have now actually knackered the hardware though by removing it from the case while it was powered up (it doesn't plug in to the mobo so I thought it would be fine but apparently not... whups! back to analog land... now where's that phono-3.5mm adapter...)