Audigy 2 zs Plat Recording source prob

Hi everyone, this is my first post.
I have the Audigy 2 zs Platinum card with front I/O. I used to be able to record from tapes to the computer but now I cannot do this anymore. I have my cables coming out of the headphone jack (from stereo - the only out put source) and into my front I/O dri've in the Line In jacks (l ch and r ch) but I get no sound going into my computer. I think it maybe win xp or my card but I don't know. I checked my volume settings in my computer and nothing is muted. My front i/o dri've works because my firewire port works fine.
Can anyone help me?
Thanks

Well, I just searched the forums here and found that this is a common problem in Counter-Strike, not the Creative software. I will try the solutions the other users have tried, and hope it works. If anyone still has a helpful comment, please post!

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<Re: SB Audigy 2ZS Plarinum Pro: setting source for recording? Okay ClustalW, I understand the "Default" problem you are having. So can you go to control panel, and sound and there look at your recording devices and tell me what do you see? If your desired device is there, you can choose it as the default and then throughout the rest of windows, this will be THE global default recording device or the first choice, when you are in other programs to record from. Also, make sure your device is plugged in when making this change. On my system with that board, a few years ago, I could make the choice, but it would always pick something else when the source was unplugged. For example, if I were using the front bay inputs as recording, when I would unplug them and reboot, my system picked the next thing as default.
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Hi all,
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all of sudden?
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>Re: How do I get my old Surround Mixer recording sources back?p audiodrome,
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<font face="verdana,geneva" color="#808080">My on board sound peaced out the other day, so I bought the Audigy SE sound card and I have sound now, but I use speakers to listen to my games and a headset for communication purposes only, not sound. I plugged the mic part of the headset into the mic slot, but no one could hear me on Ventrilo (s'what we use to talk) so I opened up the volume control for this program and unmuted the mic and it worked, but I heard myself?talking on the speakers. I couldn't find anything in the self-help guides about this. What should I do to make my mic not heard through MY speakers? Any help/ideas would be great!

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hi folks!
I hope you can understand my english, 'cause I'm german!
my problem:
I need the "analog mix" (line-in) from my audigy 4 to record sounds from a radio station. I'm using the Creative "Smart Recorder" from the "Creative Media Source Go"-software-package. When ever I'm choosing "analog mix" as recording-source, my card records everything going out & coming in by this card. When I'm starting a game or watching a movie while recording from "ANALOG MIX" (=LINE IN), my card records both, the line in - signal and the sound that is played by the movie or by a game f.e.
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Hhm I can't understand that!
There is also a "what you heare" available as the record-source. That thing records everything (incoming and outgoing).
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I've bought the Audigy 4 some weeks ago to get a better Input-Signal (and it's even very better), but I didn't know that I wont be able to record and playback at the same time. That's a pity
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Hi there, I have an Audigy 2 Platinum eX. I've recently started playing Counterstrike (a Half Life Mod), I use a piece of software called 'Ventrilo' to talk to friends via my mic during gameplay.
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Driver reinstallation
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"Clean boot" method described in the FAQ<
Things I have not tried:
Putting the card in another PCI slot
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Changing the IRQ of the card
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Changing the PCI latency<
I don't know a whole lot about the last two (the IRQ and the latency) so if someone could help me out there I'd really appreciate it. Thanks for checking out my problem and for any help you may provide.
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Get the driver!
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