[ale] continuing SoundBlaster install problem....

[cc.thomas at earthlink.net (Courtney Thomas)]

I now have the SoundBlaster 2.0 card installed and the drivers load 
correctly but the sound coming out of the speakers with maximum volume 
is barely audible.

Ruling out speakers, CDROM and CD as being the problem,... when the 
speakers are plugged directly into the CDROM player, the sound is OK.

I have connected a cable with 4 pin plugs from the CDROM's analog 
connection which apparently cannot be done incorrectly since the two 
interior pins are both ground.

That leaves the CDROM-to-SoundBlaster connection which is marked line 
out on the card and is an expected 4 pins. I have tried this connection 
both ways, i.e. rotating the connector 180 deg. and still no sound.

I don't have any docs on the card and Creative has nothing on it's site, 
it being legacy and costing them a fortune to leave the docs online  :-)

Anyway, there are several jumper pins on the card whose purpose I don't 
know. FM and VOICE are not jumpered. Of 22X and 24X, 22X is jumpered. 
The 2 interior [of 4 total] pins marked Microphone are jumpered. 
And...there are several other pin sets, some jumpered, some not, but 
they are not functionally described with onboard markings.

If anyone has one of these ISA SoundBlaster cards functioning, I'd 
appreciate the necessary missing revelation  :-)

Cordially,
Courtney