Confused With Sound Outputs On Nf7-s

[gusdagoos]

i know that i got the 6 channel chip with my nf7-s v2 but i want to know what exactly hooks up to the left/right rear, left/right front, center/sub inputs......cause i have speakers with just regular speaker wire but can somehow tell me how this works?

[DayUSeX]

I belive the green is froront, with blurple (yes that is a color) being rear. But if you are talking about the red and black cables, you are going to need to get a converter.

[gusdagoos]

i know what each color is but what i dont get is what wires are required to use this......cause i have normal speakers with speaker wire hooked up to a receiver.....but how would i be able to use these inputs? kinda confusing....

[Dermen]

It sounds like you just have bare speaker wire coming from each speaker.

The motherboard inputs are for a jack just like a headphone jack(sorry I don't know what they are called).

I don't know if they make some kind of adapter for that or what. I bet if you went to radioshack and told them what you were trying to do they would know what was available that could do what you need.

The only thing I know that you can do is to get an amp that you can connect the speakers too. Then run a line from your computers front L/R to your amps front L/R input. And so on for the rest of the speakers. To do that you would need cables with RCA jacks on one end and the headphone type jack on the other.

However, I bet their is a better alternative and I just don't know it. Maybe somebody else knows and will post but if it were me I would just ask somebody at the local radioshack.

[The_Jizzler]

you gotta get/make a spdif output jack for the board. look in your manual for the spidif headers. then its pretty straight forward if you know anythin about electronics. if not i kno there is a guide on www.8rdafaq.com but that site is down right now.

[Yuriman]

The sound quality wont be that great, but I would jsut get a cheap pair of headphones and snip off the jack, then cut up a regular cable and connect them, then to your stereo. Sorry if I sound vague, ill make a paint drawing if you want.

[d4rr3n]

Why cant he just use the optical out and connect that to his receiver?

[Yuriman]

A lot of recievers dont have an optical input. Some dont use the same format. Mine has one, but its a difference shape, so I decided it wasnt worth adapting it.

[Mystikal]

Just us the optical out, 1 cable to deal with and much better soud quality.

[gusdagoos]

well my receiver is pretty much garbage....its kinda old and i would rather not use it.......so how would those jacks for the 6 channels be normally used? and say i cut the end of a pair of headphones and used that....connecting it straight to the motherboard wouldnt work right?

[Mustanley]

This is what you need to adapt the motherboard jack (Stereo) to the RCA type inputs on your reciever. Just add some rca cables and you will be set.
http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=CTLG&category%5Fname=CTLG%5F011%5F003%5F001%5F003&product%5Fid=274%2D883

[gusdagoos]

yea thats what i was thinking cause i went to radioshack and the guy said that i can buy an adapter that makes my speaker wires into rca jacks and then buy that.....but then the speaker would be going straight to the motherboard...would that work?

[Mustanley]

Nope. Any speaker has to be run from some sort of amplifier. PC speakers have built in amplifiers. If you want to use your home stereo speakers, you'll have to plug the adapter above into the motherboard, then run RCA cables from the adapter to a set of stereo inputs on your reciever/amplifier and then run your speaker wires from the reciever/amp to the speakers.

[gusdagoos]

does anyone have pictures that can show me a setup up that they actually used the jacks on the abit nf7-s rev. thanks

[d4rr3n]

Well it would really help if you gave us pictures of your receiver and more information about it. There's only 2 things i could tell you to do right now.

1. connect the optical out of the mobo to your receiver (this of course requires your receiver to have optical inputs.....which you never mentioned if it did or not)

2. you can get the adapter that was mentioned earlier or a cable like this http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=CTLG&product%5Fid=42-2551 you'll need 1 cable like this for all 3 of the outputs. the audio outputs are clearly labled on section 3-19 of your mobo manual (and should be clearly marked on the back of your receiver). i'm not exactly sure how the center/sub splits go though (and this of course requires your receiver to have 5.1 analog inputs....which you never mentioned if it did or not)

Those are your options. You can't connect the speakers straight to the motherboard. They require amplification and wont get it from the motherboard jacks. Your best, cheapest, and easiest solution is to connect it with the optical cable if you have one (and if you dont have an optical input i doubt you have 5.1 analog inputs). Hope this helps.

[gusdagoos]

yea i dont have an optical input and im 99.99% sure i dont have analog inputs either......anyone have an example of a receiver with those inputs.....so the only way to use those inputs on the motherboard is with a receiver?

[Mustanley]

Do you have a Dolby Digital receiver? If so, you must have either analog inputs, or some type of digital input, whether it be optical or coaxial.

[gusdagoos]

ill have to check to make sure...