Cobra AW-850 Deluxe help, i have searched everywhere.

Elder Purch · 07-13-2006, 04:22 AM

Hi everyone, thank you for reading my problem.

I just got a Cobra AW-850 Deluxe sound card and have come across a problem. As everyone knows, its not a very good sound card, but i only bought it for its optical input, so theoreticlly, its enough for me.

Of course, for some reason the optical input does not work, and i have searched everywhere on the net for help, but have come out empty handed. There are a lot of posts on forums, etc, that talk about optical out, but not optical in. If anyone knows what settings, etc i should have it on, help would be much appreciated as there are no instructions with it or anything like that. The Aopen website was not much help.

Also i have the most update drivers, and there is still no sound comming through the optical in. I have 5.1 speakers which are plugged into the right jacks, and the onboard sound card thingy has been disabled (the one on the motherboard) so there shouldnt be any conflicting issues there... if any more information is needed, please just ask. Thanks for reading

-Elder

dai · 07-13-2006, 09:22 AM

i could not find much either,there was on comment that they could only get it to work on a 2 speaker setup

Elder Purch · 07-13-2006, 06:57 PM

Yea, even that i think refers to optical output. Because it says you can only use the card for 2 speaker, or headphone, optical output. But all i need is input, i thought itd be pretty straight forward and simple. Thanks for looking though. Anyone else got any ideas?

-Elder

dai · 07-14-2006, 09:12 AM

check out the last post here and see if it helps
http://forums.hardwaresecrets.com/sh...?threadid=1488

07-13-2006, 04:22 AM	#1 (permalink)
Elder Purch Registered User Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Australia Posts: 2 OS: Windows XP	Cobra AW-850 Deluxe help, i have searched everywhere. Hi everyone, thank you for reading my problem. I just got a Cobra AW-850 Deluxe sound card and have come across a problem. As everyone knows, its not a very good sound card, but i only bought it for its optical input, so theoreticlly, its enough for me. Of course, for some reason the optical input does not work, and i have searched everywhere on the net for help, but have come out empty handed. There are a lot of posts on forums, etc, that talk about optical out, but not optical in. If anyone knows what settings, etc i should have it on, help would be much appreciated as there are no instructions with it or anything like that. The Aopen website was not much help. Also i have the most update drivers, and there is still no sound comming through the optical in. I have 5.1 speakers which are plugged into the right jacks, and the onboard sound card thingy has been disabled (the one on the motherboard) so there shouldnt be any conflicting issues there... if any more information is needed, please just ask. Thanks for reading -Elder

07-13-2006, 09:22 AM	#2 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 56,588 OS: win 7 32x 64x rtm	i could not find much either,there was on comment that they could only get it to work on a 2 speaker setup __________________

07-14-2006, 09:12 AM	#4 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 56,588 OS: win 7 32x 64x rtm	check out the last post here and see if it helps http://forums.hardwaresecrets.com/sh...?threadid=1488 __________________

07-13-2006, 06:57 PM	#3 (permalink)
Elder Purch Registered User Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Australia Posts: 2 OS: Windows XP	Yea, even that i think refers to optical output. Because it says you can only use the card for 2 speaker, or headphone, optical output. But all i need is input, i thought itd be pretty straight forward and simple. Thanks for looking though. Anyone else got any ideas? -Elder