A growing collection of questions and answers for Creative Labs 10K1 based cards including the original Live and Live Value, the MP3+, the X-Gamer, the Player 1024 and the Platinum. Our FAQ is intended to supplement but not replace Creative's own extensive FAQs.
Unfortunately not as the expansion header on the original LiveValue is not pin compatible with the original Live full version or the new boards.
You can do one of 2 things:
You can purchase one of the new cards with the digital out connector or purchase Hoontec's upgrade board. Creative does offer a daughter board that offers COAX and optical digital in and out (which connects to LiveValue cards) Unfortunately, they are currently out of stock. Creative Labs expects to see them available mid Dec sometime. - Updated: October 31, 1999