I don't need to re-read your OP - I see now you have Win10 running on something old, to still have and be using IDE, well, support is going to be limited - back when IDE was around the whole reason you had the analogue CD audio was because IDE was limited and back then digital stereo sound was a bonus - I will confirm what you said - not all motherboards support 5.1 sound - but all modern, within the last couple of years do - in fact most support 7.1.
SBL 5.1's latest driver support officially was XP, the fact there is any support at all with windows 10 is pot luck. Could someone please tag Chris from Microsoft? Thanks guys. If your interested I'll elucidate further. Cabling will be strange but should work electrically. it involves 2 computers, first (if the above answer is positive) with a 5.1 sound card and the second with regular 2.1 sound card, a set of 5.1 speakers and a KVM switch with audio support. You think that's wierd?Ĭheck out how I have to hook up the 5.1's. The newer SB cards don't support that hookup.
I have 2 internal cdroms (cdrom and dvd) and need to be able to hook the audio for both to the sound card. To those of you that say get a new card.no can do. To my question.will the native Windows 10 drivers run that SB Live card and will it run the 5.1 speakers? Creative isn't doing drivers for this card for 10. Unfortunately the onboard sound doesn't support 5.1 (god only knows how long I've had this card).
My speakers quit working (2.1 set) and my niece gave me a set of Creative 5.1 speakers. I have to put an older sound card in my machine (Sound Blaster Live 5.1). Strange question guys hoping Chris from Microsoft can weigh in on this.