PCWorks fourPointsSorround vs. Audigy 2 ZS Notebook?

Dear Experts, I do have "PCWorks fourPointsSorround" speaker system which is kind of old speaker. And now I would like to buy USB or PCMCIA type of external creative sound card that can be used with my high-end laptop computer. I browse through the creative site and seen their product line items such as "Audigy 2 ZS Notebook" PCMCIA sound card; but I am not sure whether this type of card can still be used with my speaker stystem mentioned above. Your advice would be highly appreciated. Sincerely,Sothun

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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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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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
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Colours may vary --> just connect by the instructions from both manuals.
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- Stereo and 4-Pole Jack Diagrams
- Connecting a multichannel home theater receiver
- cabletypes needed on connections
on User's Guide.
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Also, here is the Onkyo HT-S580 manual.
jutapaMessage Edited by jutapa on 0-0-2006 03:32 AM

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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.
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Any help would be greatly appreciated as I'm a musician and really need to get recording.
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ctorres wrote:
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Sorry my very bad english, but i'm from Switzerland...
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