Audigy 2 ZS notebook vs Audigy 2 ZS notebook

There are several products at the market: Audigy 2 ZS notebook (53SB053000004), Audigy 2 ZS notebook R3(70SB053002007), Audigy 2 ZS notebook R3 (70SB053002006),? Audigy 2 ZS notebook?R2 (70SB053002002). So what's the difference between them ? R3 is little bit more dearly.

Dear Jason, Many thanks for your prompted reply. Your advice has helped me in making decision to buy one. However, I have observed that the Audigy 2 ZS Notebooks has two output interfaces (via its demo web site). There are two male connectors?come from PCWorks Four-Point Surround Sound FPS1000 sub-woofer to be pluged in to soundcard. One connector labeled as F (assuming Front) and the other connector labeled as R (assuming Rear). Wondering if the two female connectors of Audigy 2 ZS Notebooks designed to accommodate that. Thank for your next advice. Sincerely Sothun

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Connecting PCMCIA Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Notebook to Onkyo HT-S580 Recei

Hi
I have PCMCIA Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Notebook audio card with my Thinkpad laptop.
I have bought Onkyo HT- S580 Hometheater system. I was hoping to connect the Line out, Line out2, Line out3 jacks to the receiver's Front, Surround(rear) and Center in jacks.
The color on the Onkyo Recei'ver end are Center - Green , Surround(rear) - Blue , Front - White
The color on the Creative Card end are Center- Orange , rear - Black , Front - Green
There is color difference between these two ends . Is it advisable to connect these two jacks ?
Please recommend the suitable cable type and name for this connection
Thanks

dilip wrote:
Hi I have PCMCIA Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Notebook audio card with my Thinkpad laptop. I have bought Onkyo HT- S580 Hometheater system. I was hoping to connect the Line out, Line out2, Line out3 jacks to the receiver's Front, Surround(rear) and Center in jacks. The color on the Onkyo Recei'ver end are Center - Green , Surround(rear) - Blue , Front - White The color on the Creative Card end are Center- Orange , rear - Black , Front - Green There is color difference between these two ends . Is it advisable to connect these two jacks ? Please recommend the suitable cable type and name for this connection Thanks
Hi
Colours may vary --> just connect by the instructions from both manuals.
There are good explanations for
- Stereo and 4-Pole Jack Diagrams
- Connecting a multichannel home theater receiver
- cabletypes needed on connections
on User's Guide.
NOTE: This User's Guide can be found on your driver CD too.
Also, here is the Onkyo HT-S580 manual.
jutapaMessage Edited by jutapa on 0-0-2006 03:32 AM

Audigy 2 Z2 Notebook PCMCIA Card cannot install Creative Mediasource 5

. Every time I try and install CMS5 on the Audigy 2 Z2 Notebook PCMCIA Card, I keep getting this ERROR:
[color="#ff0000"]DoInstall Fails to Launch C:\Windows\CRF002\CTXInst\Setup.inx DoInstall return error code is - 2472332
here is the file name of the install: CMS5-BRNR_PCAPP_LB_5_0_44.exe
I have re-installed, all creative drivers, I even clean installed them, and i still get this error, any ideas?
EDIT: I fixed the problem, you have to install the older CMS5 before the latest new driver will work............well duh!
Message Edited by denb45 on 0-8-2009 06:5 [email protected]

Thank you for the reply split0,
as for the informati've post, thank you for the compliment, i tend to not open a thread at all unless i have spent enough time on the problem and searched around enough for solutions, and after that i only post if it has enough info regarding everything in inside the thread.
In regard to the known incompatibility list, unfortunatly this is one of the things i checked beforehand already.
The PCMCIA adapter in my laptop is a Texas Instruments PCI-8x2/7x2/6x2 CardBus-controller.
Which is one of the most common controllers and should normally not cause any troubles at all, also in another thread on this forum i found a differant driver for it, i even tried that with no result sadly.
At the moment personally i am thinking the whole problem lies within not being able to uninstall the onboard sound card to full extent somehow, and while i posted here i also have all this info in a direct message sent to creative, and even acer for that matter.
In hopes of some kind of solution for this so i can keep my hopes up for not having to return the card itself.
What bugs me is that there is option at all to disable the onboard sound through the bios.
Because right now whenever i install the ZS notebook card it checks hardware for the onboard first installing it again, then setting priority for the zs notebook.
This is what seems to result in the crashes through a conflict in drivers in my idea, but thats just a hunch which i cant do anything about currently in regard to testing unless someone has an idea for me to try.
Message Edited by Natharneal on 05-23-2008 0:54 PM

SB Audigy 2 Notebook Recording "Error Encounter

Hi, I've had a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Notebook card for several weeks, and while it's generally working quite well, I've encountered the same error the last several weeks with after a scheduled recording from a line-in source:
After exactly hour, 55 minutes, and 44 seconds, the recording stops with a message that an error was encountered. In each case, the file format was .wav files, 48000 Hz, 24-bit Stereo; the file sizes, as reported in Windows Explorer, were ,953,4 KB.
Is there perhaps a file size limitation? If so, what thoughts/recommedations would folks have on the settings for loss-less recording of quality (such as it is) FM Stereo off-the air? Generally, I'd like to get 3 /2 - 4 /2 hour recordings.
Thanks in advance.
Doug

Jallenwebb,
If you are using the Mic/Line in 2 on the platinum dri've you will want to set the volume control on it to microphone (turn the volume up to where you want it...all the way down till it clicks sets it to line in mode) as in line in mode it records in stereo mode (both channels are recorded and since most mics are mono then you end up with only one channel) but in Microphone mode it records it as a mono input that is panned to center so it plays back in both channels.
Jeremy

No Sound on Right Channel - Audigy Notebook Z

Hey.
One day, after nearly a year of perfect use and harmony, my lovely audigy notebook ZS stopped giving me sound on the right channel. I tried changing all of the settings and updating the drivers, but to no avail.
I then uninstalled the drivers completely, cleaned them with driver cleaner pro, then attempted to reinstall them by downloading them off of creative's support page.
However now the drivers will not reinstall.
Please advise.
Thank you.

I believe your friend can get it replaced, yes. All he needs is the iPod. If you'd like, you can also send it in: http://depot.info.apple.com/ipod/.

SB Audigy 2 ZS Notebook driver install probl

Hello there i just bought a new notebook edition SB Audigy 2 ZS card and im having alot of trouble installing the driver and ap
ps.
When using either the cd it came with or the updated driver install from creative.com about half way through the install my computer crashes. My computer detects the sound card. Ive also tried using the driver update feature and when it starts about 3/4 the way installing from the cd it stops and asks for the directory to the file ha20x2k.sys to continue. Well i've searched the entire cd and only found one file that resembles it and its labeled ha0k2k.sys I dunno what the deal is with that. Im using an Averatec 3300 series notebook running Windows XP pro SP2. Ive searched up and down for some kind of information that can help me but nothing so if anyone has some input that might be of some help it would be greatly appreciated

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Audigy 2zs notebook - Can hear but NOT record effect of Graphic Equalizer

Dear people,
Audigy 2zs notebook card, using with sonar-le to record (and also with Audacity).
I can record all I play with my soft synths, and mic voice, perfectly. Various tracks simultneously.
Playback is also great.
I use sonar-le in Asio 2-Mode, and MME and all works good.
HOWEVER, I bring up the Creative equalizer, and I enable it, it makes a NOTORIOUS difference.. I can enable it while I am recording, before, or after.
So I record a track as usual, but I enable the equalizer, and I am FINDING-OUT that I can not seem to be able to RECORD the effect of the creative EQUALIZER!
Even though I can hear it in and out, big difference, the track recorded wave continues to record as if it does not see the equalizer at all.
I have tried all available inputs and many many things, but I just can not get the eq. effects to RECORD.
I have two speakers connected to the dongle that attaches to the notebook card... I have also tried using headphones, directly connected to card, and all I can think. I tried also mme mode.
I also tried audacity and same. Can't get the recording to be like what I hear with the headphones.
Why would this be? How can I solve the problem?
Thanks a lot!

neutron wrote:
Whoops!? That sequencer/recording application "Cubasis VST 4" comes packaged with Audigy 2ZS Platinum Pro but not with the Notebook soundcard. A similar product Cubasis LE comes with X-Fi Elite Pro.
I haven't seen any details of the internal layout/architecture of the sound card, but I don't think that would help you in terms of some new configurations for recording.
In terms of recording capability, since there is only one input port with the NOtebook card, you are of course fairly limited in terms of connectivity, unless you have an external mixer (if you are talking about recording two things at the same time).
However, the audio quality of the Notebook card is certainly good enough to record very good quality audio with S/N, THD etc. My opinion is that people spend way too much time fussing about specs, noise etc. where in reality, most external transducers (mics, guitars etc.) always limit the recorded quality (unless you have really good professional recording gear and you have a lot of experience.
I've heard outstanding quality recorded music made on recording gear with much poorer specs than the Notebook card.
Best thing with your Notebook card is do what you've been doing. Use it and experiment and concentrate on the music generation itself.
Thanks for the reply!
I gather that the application may not be downloadable, specially if it is third-party. I do have the Synth effect, though that I can plug into Sonar.. I like the hardware enabled effects, though, specially since my music playing/recording system is a little complex.
Yes, I do have external hardware mixers, and though there is only the mic/line input, that's not too bad since this card has MANY internal inputs and outputs that I DO USE. All? of my instruments and music is now software based..Only the Mic is external. That's why the hardware synth of the 2zs laptop is so attracti've.. It does not bear on cpu or data... That's why I asked about architecture info orient myself.
Also, I may be wrong, but I read that many of the hardware capabilities of the 2zs notebook card are no longer there on the newer cards... That effects and other things are now mostly software based? Is that so?...Can I use two cards on the laptop, the 2 zs and the express slot one simultneously and have more inputs/outputs?
I am still interested in all practical possibilities, and I do like the Creative soundcards.
The great thig is that you told me that the Eq can not be recorded, so that's very important to me.. I can still record it, though out into a second laptop via the headphone jack. But I will try the VST's I have here first and see how they feel and sound.
It really amazes me, though, that I can hear the effect, but there's no way to record it.
Maybe a new driver could do it's
Thanks and best wishes!

Audigy 2 ZS Notebook doesn't have enough resoucres in vi

Ok, I have an audigy 2 zs pcmcia and vista 32-bit, and the sound card can't get enough resources (Code 2 in device mgr). I also know that others on this forum concluded that the problem has nothing to do with creative or the vista drivers, but the problem is due to the computer's cardbus/pcmcia adapter.
However, my adapter is a "Texas Instruments PCI 7x20/6x20" and its driver is up-to-date, according to Windows Update, and my manufacturer (they do not have an update on the support page for my notebook , Sony VGN-FJ70).
So this is a final call to anyone. How does Vista handle system resources differently than XP? Or is there a registry edit that will make the cardbus give the sound card resources. Or does somebody know anything about the TI cardbus driver, or know of a older driver that will work (and where to find it, b/c I've already looked).
BTW, I can't change anything in BIOS because sony has dumbed it down like I've never seen in any computer ever. I can pretty much change the clock and boot order, that's about it.

I tried uninstalling, reinstalling drivers, wiggling the card, jumping on my desk, etc. No luck.
Win XP Pro (latest service packs) , Dell Inspiron 8600...
Any help appreciated.
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Audigy 2 ZS Notebook Help Optica

Hi there,?I want to connect two computers to a system and right now im just using analog on one system and a cable from the line out of my computer to the line in of my speakers. I've been trying to find out what I will need to connect the speakers to the laptop? Its the logitech 5500 it supports optical and coax, so do I need an adapter for it to connect into my laptop or do I just buy any type of optical cable? My other computer has a Sound Blaster Audigy , so I was wondering if i could use coax or optical on any of the cards. Thanks a lot!?Andy

To connect the Audigy you need a coaxial cable, and?a mono 3.5mm miniplug to RCA jack adapter, connected to the digital out jack in the card. To conect the Audigy Notebook you need an optical toslink to optical miniplug cable or a toslink cable with a toslink to miniplug adapter connected to the shared headphone/spdif out in the pcmcia card. Please note that connecting via spdif you will have only stereo sound unless you pass through bitstream from DVDs.

HELP! Audigy 2 ZS Notebook used with Vista and can't reco

I just installed my Audigy 2 ZS Notebook PCMCIA card and cannot figure out how to record in both Adobe Audition .5 and Sony Acid 6.0b.
The info I'm missing is:
) Which device to set as the "default" in the Windows Vista "Recording Devices" area.
2) What "Audio Device" to use as well as the "Default Audio Recording Device" in Sony Acid 6.0b.
3) The "Recording Device Order" and the "Wave In Device Properties" for Adobe Audition .5
Any help would be greatly appreciated as I'm a musician and really need to get recording.
Thank you!

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The result of the last install: Crashed with blue screen, Two lines are in the messages, that are not part of the explanation, on how to fix the problem:
(I took a photo, but my just missed, so all the text is washed, but readable: The unrecognised letter replaced with ?)
I?Q?_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
(Propably IRQA or IRQE)
Thecnical Information:
*** STOP: 0x0000000A (0x00000000, 0x00000002, 0x0000000, 0x82C6870F)
Source:?? Microsoft-Windows-WER-SystemErrorReporting
D?tum:?? 2009.09.26. :54:43
Event ID:00
Description:
Tells that the action was the code, that I was wrote above, and the report id is 092609-33992-0.
Event in XML:
<Event xmlns="<a rel="nofollow" href="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event"]http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event[/url]">
? <System>
? rovider Name="Microsoft-Windows-WER-SystemErrorReporting" Guid="{ABCE23E7-DE45-4366-863-84FA6C525952}" EventSourceName="BugCheck" />
? <EventID Qualifiers="6384">00</EventID>
? <Version>0</Version>
? <Level>2</Level>
? <Task>0</Task>
? <Opcode>0</Opcode>
? <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
? <TimeCreated SystemTime="2009-09-26T09:54:43.000000000Z" />
? <EventRecordID>6322</EventRecordID>
? <Correlation />
? <Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />
? <Channel>System</Channel>
? <Computer>XXX</Computer>
? <Security />
? </System>
? <EventData>
? <Data Name="param">0x0000000a (0x00000000, 0x00000002, 0x0000000, 0x82c6870f)</Data>
? <Data Name="param2">C:\Windows\MEMORY.DMP</Data>
? <Data Name="param3">092609-33992-0</Data>
? </EventData>
</Event>
After restart, the bios test freezez in the final frazes, and force shutdown and restart, functions well again. The sound card is in while booting.
No driver confilcts.
I've uploaded the dmp file here: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://pantonite.extra.hu/bin/MEMORY.DMP"]http://pantonite.extra.hu/bin/MEMORY.DMP[/url]

Problems with recording with Audigy 2 ZS Notebook pls pls help????

hi
!!! I am try to fix a record from a dj mixer to my Audigy 2 ZS Notebook...every is set ...from the mixer i am using 3.5 mm strero? 2 st RCA to the Audigy 2 ZS Notebook...but when i click record i donot get any signal in ...i am try to record through line in on the record program. but when i try to record with a anther program" sony" its works ....but not the Audigy 2 ZS record program ...pls help ...
mike

jkeener7 wrote:
Thanks I went ahead and got some Logitech Z5500 speakers.
Hi
Did you not looked "Audigy 2 Zs Notebook's" User's Guide?
jutapa

Audigy 2 ZS Notebook and a stupid, stupid frie

A couple of days ago a friend of mine decided to press the PCMCIA card eject button. I told him not to do this, but he's an idiot. So he presses it, and the card pops out. After this, my laptop freezes, and I have to do a "hard" shutdown. I boot it back up, and now the speakers no longer work with the Audigy. If I shut the computer down then start it up without the card in a PCMCIA slot, the speakers work fine, except with the less-than-stellar sound quality. When I use the HPJ (Headphone jack) in the card, the headphones work fine. Now, this isn't any great inconvenience for me, but I would like to resolve it, because I don't enjoy having to use my headphones when I want to listen my music. And not using the card with my speakers isn't an option. It sounds like crap without it.
Any help it greatly appreciated.

OK, thank you for the information. More than likely something has gone wrong with your Windows registry. Rather than delve into that, I would suggest that you go back into Device Manager, and 'Uninstall' you 'On Board' sound card, and reboot your machine. While the notebook is off, remove the PCMCIA card, and this will force the OS to reinstall the on board sound into Device Manager and hopefully the registry as well. Once this is done, you should see a return of your on board sound card's functions and be able to hear you on board speakers.
Please note, that it may take a secondary boot prior to hearing your on board sound card kick in. Simply 'Uninstall' the on board sound (and have the 'Drivers and Applications' CD/DVD from your notebook at hand... and the OS installation disc too), reboot then when the system logs back on it should reinstall the on board sound. It may ask you for the drivers CD/DVD and the OS CD/DVD during this process. That is why I suggested that you have it there when you start. Once this is complete, you should reboot and when your system comes back up you should have sound in your notebook's speakers.
If not, leave a message. There is one instance, I can think of, where you would successfully reinstall the on board sound (and it's system registry entries) and the sound NOT come from your speakers.
Enzo Matrix

Audigy 2 ZS Notebook - PCMCIA controller compatibil

Is the below incompatibility list still accurate? I've got a Dell Inspiron XPS Gen2 that has a Ricoh R5C476 II controller and I'd really like to upgrade to a ZS 2 notebook. I'm hoping it's been fixed!!
[*]ENE Tech CB4 [*]Ricoh R5C476(II) [*]Ricoh R5C475(II) [*]TI PCI-520 [*]Toshiba Tecra2000 [*]Fujitsu Lifebook C230 P M .5GHz. [*]Tohsiba Satelite M30 Notebook. [*]IBM Notebook X2 and X20 [*]Dell Inspiron D400 </LI>

jkeener7 wrote:
Thanks I went ahead and got some Logitech Z5500 speakers.
Hi
Did you not looked "Audigy 2 Zs Notebook's" User's Guide?
jutapa

Audigy 2 ZS Notebook Prob

Windows detect my audigy 2 Sound card but the Creative software doesn't."The audio device supported by the application may not be present or may be operating in an unsupported mode.You need to close the application. " What can i do ? I deactivated the sound card , reinstaled the driver. I have media center 2k5 . Need help . Thank you .

OK, thank you for the information. More than likely something has gone wrong with your Windows registry. Rather than delve into that, I would suggest that you go back into Device Manager, and 'Uninstall' you 'On Board' sound card, and reboot your machine. While the notebook is off, remove the PCMCIA card, and this will force the OS to reinstall the on board sound into Device Manager and hopefully the registry as well. Once this is done, you should see a return of your on board sound card's functions and be able to hear you on board speakers.
Please note, that it may take a secondary boot prior to hearing your on board sound card kick in. Simply 'Uninstall' the on board sound (and have the 'Drivers and Applications' CD/DVD from your notebook at hand... and the OS installation disc too), reboot then when the system logs back on it should reinstall the on board sound. It may ask you for the drivers CD/DVD and the OS CD/DVD during this process. That is why I suggested that you have it there when you start. Once this is complete, you should reboot and when your system comes back up you should have sound in your notebook's speakers.
If not, leave a message. There is one instance, I can think of, where you would successfully reinstall the on board sound (and it's system registry entries) and the sound NOT come from your speakers.
Enzo Matrix

Audigy 2 ZS Notebook Synthesizer not instal

I've just installed the SoundBlaster Audigy 2 Notebook soundsard, into my Fujitsu AMILO PRO V3525 notebook with Windows Vista Home Premium. It caused a little problem to me, with the WiFi network card and modem driver, but I've fixed it.
I have just figured out, that the Synthesizer is not installed properly, and any time I want to install it, the device manager crash, or it say somthing that the extension atribute not maches. I can't even remove the driver, 'cause windows device manager imediatly crashes.
I have already tried to update, but it had no affect on Synthesizer.
I had installed a deviced called unsupported game port driver from Microsoft, wich made it possible, to uninstall the driver. (I think it was not pernament.) What should I do, how can it be fixed

jkeener7 wrote:
Thanks I went ahead and got some Logitech Z5500 speakers.
Hi
Did you not looked "Audigy 2 Zs Notebook's" User's Guide?
jutapa

Audigy 2 ZS Notebook PCMCIA will not give me 6-channel 5.1 with my Creative DTT2500 Speakers!

I have this (Creative DTT2500 5. Speaker system) Amplifier/Decoder Box:
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Audigy 2 ZS PCMCIA has these connections:
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How do I get it to work with this to allow me to get 5. Surround Sound?!?!?
I am baffled: So far I can only get line out to work, but only 2 speakers at a time. Rear out does nothing!
Please help me, as I want to make sure I am not an idiot before I am forced to buy a Logitech Z 5500 speakers!!!
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Message Edited by jkeener7 on 0-04-2006 08:08 PM

jkeener7 wrote:
Thanks I went ahead and got some Logitech Z5500 speakers.
Hi
Did you not looked "Audigy 2 Zs Notebook's" User's Guide?
jutapa

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