-=> Wayne Chirnside said to All
 -=> about "CD-ROM AUDIO CABLE" on 01-29-03  15:01.....

 WC> These are both female connectors I'm speaking of.
 WC> The old cable for the Creative CD-ROM drive is wired
 WC> blank, white, black, red with red to the side of the drive
 WC> while the new CD-ROM's cable goes into the drive as
 WC> white, blank, black, red
 WC> Same order but the blank is in a different place on each plug
 WC> and the pins do not match.
 WC> Any opionions as to what success or disaster I might
 WC> face were I to cut off the connector from the PCI sound card
 WC> and wire it to the end of the cable coming from the sound card
 WC> soldering the salvaged connector and correcting the wiring order?

It should not cause any problems at all. If you get it wrong all
that should happen is you get no output or you get hum or noise
at the output.

But check the connector. Sometimes you can get at the little clip
that holds the connection into the housing and swap it to the
hole where it should be for the new configuration.

Or go to your local secondhand computer retailer and you'll
probably get the correct cable pretty cheaply.

 WC> The PCI soundcard is Turtle Beach which I've heard of but
 WC> lack software for so I'm looking for a workaround
 WC> with the cable for the Sound card I _do_ have
 WC> software for, opinions?

Nope, I'm not up with them sufficiently to help there.

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