Hotrodding the X-Fi: A Layman's Guide (No 56k) - Page 145

I will try that. Thank you.

 Hey,

so I put everything back to its place, exchanged the 0,1uF capacitor for the new one and.. nothing. Its dead :( Something's blown up I suppose. Thanks for your help anyway.

I did this mod by following the guide by ramachandra, so I used Silmic II 1500/16 for the main power filtering cap, but I also ordered the Nichicon KG 2200/63 that was recommended in this guide. How in the world do you fit that thing onto a sound card?!?!? It looks like it would be impossible. It was hard enough to fit the Silmic II (my father helped me with it, he found a small area with no components or resistors and  glued the cap sideways).

So my question is, have any of you actually put the Nichicon KG 2200/63 on this?

I did the mod, but the volume is extremely low.  sound is coming from both sides, but I can hardly hear it on maximum.  What I can hear though, sounds great and hope I can get this fixed.  Does anyone know why the volume would be low?  I've only installed the opamp.  It appears it's seated fine.  I saw someone earlier in the thread who fixed this problem, which seems identical to mine:

"It seems part of the AD8599 v- pin was somehow cut off even though I did not do anything like that. I just added more solder to connect that joint and it now works out perfectly"

but, i don't understand what this means.

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I think this pad might have come off:

I cannot find a diagram in this thread showing where it goes to.  I have no multimeter, and don't know how to use it.  Can someone just tell me where it goes?

edit:  found a diagram, and i don't think the V- was the problem.  I have no idea what to do.

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Hey guys, kinda skipped to the end here has there are 150 pages on this thread. Can somebody give me specs for the caps they used to replace the power filter and decoupling caps?

I heard 1000uf 16v cap on the power filter was good, is the correct?. On the first page there is a photo showing 4 caps that should be shorted. I would rather replace these, what spec caps should I use for them?

Thanks in advance...

Hi, I'm interested in removing the high-pass/coupling cap on the X-fi's  (Xtreme Music) line-in input.  Could anyone direct me to which cap this is?  150 pages is too much to wade through!

Ok, I've bypassed C19, C48, and C49, which gives the line-in a direct connection (after 20k series resistance) to the ADC.  However, I've found from the ADC spec sheet that there is a digital highpass filter that can only be disabled through software.  Is anyone aware of a way to disable this, say through modded drivers?

(I wish to use the soundcard as an A/D board, but my signals are too low frequency.)