Creative Live! Drive II User Manual
User’s Guide
Creative Live! Drive II
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Contents
Introduction ....................................................................................................................1
System Requirements ....................................................................................................1
Your Live! Dr ive .............. ... .. ...................... .. ... .............. ... .. ............... .. ... .............. ... .. ....2
Switching Audio Input Sources..........................................................................3
Connecting Headphones .....................................................................................4
Connecting Microphone.....................................................................................4
Adjusting Headphones Volume and Microphone Gain...... ................................5
Installing Hardware........................................................................................................6
Step 1: Prepare the System for Hardware Installation........................................6
Step 2: Insert the Live! Drive into the System....................................................7
Step 3: Connect to the SB Live! Card ................................................................ 9
Step 4: (Optional) Install the Digital DIN Metal Bracket
(To connect to FPS2000 or DTT2500 speakers )................ ............. ...............10
Step 5: (Optional) Connect to the Digital I/O Card (Only if you have one)....10
Step 6: Complete the Installation .....................................................................10
Using Your Live! Drive................................................................................................10
Playing Games and Music................................................................................11
Watching DVD Movies Using SoftPC-DVD ...................................................11
Recording and Content Authoring....................................................................11
Installing Software.......................................................................................................14
Additional Features in Device Controls ........................................................... 14
Gener a l S p eci fi ca ti o ns .......... .. ........ .. ... .............. ... .. ............... .. ... .............. ... .. .............. 15
Troubleshooting........................................................................................................... 15
Introduction
Connect Live! Drive to your Sound Blaster Live! audio card, and you will have the best audio
solution available for your music, digital audio content creation, games, movies, CDs, MP3
songs and other Internet entertainment. The Live! Drive has a front panel, which allows you to
connect commonly used audio sources to external devices ea sily . It convenie nt ly allows you to
plug in your microphone and headphones, and adjust the ga in/volume from the front pa nel.
Live! Dri ve also provides MIDI, as well as, digital input and output connectors for your audio
recording and content authoring purposes.
System Requirements
The minimum system requirements for Live! Drive are:
❑ An installed Sound Blas ter Live! (with an AUD_EXT expansion header)
❑ An availa ble 5¼" PC drive bay
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❑ Genuine Intel
133 MHz for Windows 95/98, 200 MHz for Windows NT 4. 0
❑ Intel or 100% compatibl e mo therboard chipset
❑ Windows 95, 98 or Windows NT 4.0
❑ 16 MB RAM for Windows 95/98 (32 MB RAM recommended),
32 MB RAM for Windows NT 4.0
❑ 160 MB of free hard disk space
❑ Headphones or amplified speakers (available separately)
❑ CD-ROM drive required for software installat ion
Pentium® class processor:
Live Drive CT4860/CT4861 1
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