3. Installing H/W, S/W, and Speakers
3.1 Audio Hardware
HDA Digital X-Mystique 7.1 GOLD driver is designed to support the
(PCI 8ch audio chips with Dolby® Digital Live encoder). The “+” version chips
mean Dolby Digital Live encoder is included. If you bought HDA X-Mystique 7.1
GOLD sound board, you should install your board to the PCI slot on your
motherboard when power-off first.
3.2 Audio Software
Just put the support/driver CD into your CD-ROM/DVD-ROM to install the HDA
Digital X-Mystique 7.1 GOLD driver/software via the installation program. If your
system use Windows® 98 SE or Windows® ME, you have to install DirectX 9.0
(DirectX 9.0c End-User Runtime recommended) or higher version (from the
website below) to support 7.1 channel surround sound normally.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.aspx?displaylang=en&categoryid=2
3.3 Connection and Speaker Setup
The following figure shows a port design of HDA Digital X-Mystique 7.1 GOLD
sound board bracket and also illustrate how to connecting your audio devices to
the sound card.
