I was needing some help if anyone would give me some pointers? I installed a Soundblaster Audigy 2 gaming edition card. It has to options on the cables running to the card from the cd-rom. Digital and analog. I hooked up my cd-rom to the analog and the dvd rom to the digital. I was curious if this would cause me problems. Should i put them both analog since it can support two drives? Also I was wondering to where do i hook my modem in to have the dialing sound( i need it for faxing) Theres an option that says TAD IN? Basicly im just trying to make sure im hooking everything up correctly. Thanks in advance Maddog

What I'd do: Modem -- hook it up to the anaolg audio-in on the Audigy2. Forget about the optical drives. They can digitally extract their audio and send it to the Audigy2, which has a much higher quality DAC anyway. A64 3500+ on Abit AN8

Aidio including the modem is done over IDE - no cables necessary with W2K or XP OS'es. Biostar NF3250GB 6800GT BFG Seagate 200 gig LanBoy/550W Antec Audigy 2 XP Professional

I did what you said and it worked? I was just wondering would they be any advantage to hooking in the digital audio cable to the dvd-rom as far as sound quality? Maddog

None at all. The audio data is extracted in digital format and sent to your soundcard. It doesn't matter whether it goes by digital audio cable or IDE cable--it's the exact same data when it arrives at the Audigy. The important thing is that you're bypassing the optical drive's DAC (Digital to Analog Converter). Your soundcard does a much better job of converting the digital to analog. "if it ain't broke, upgrade anyway."