Audigy FX 5.1 front port audio issue

[Jaeden Hudson]

I have an Audigy FX card that I just bought. It works very well but there is a small problem. For one im using it in my dell pc so I can not connect the front port audio to the ports on the front as they are apart of the ribbon cable that goes to the motherboard. So I found an old case that I had laying around, and took the front port audio out of it. It was an older custom built cheap system that ran win xp. Anyways, the front ports are ac97. I looked online how to wire it to the card and use it but when I do that the speakers do not get any sound regardless and the headphone side of it sounds really bad. No bass whatsoever. It does try to bleed through to the speakers when I turn it up. I don't know what I can do.