center speaker problems, to any expert, pls help
Hello, I have Logitech X530 (5.1) hooked up to a SB Live Card on my PC. All
the plugs from the speakers have a place on the back of machine on the card without confusion. Problem is I cannot get any sound from the center speaker ever, even though it works in the SB test. I have already checked the settings in the windows sound file location and changed the to 5.1 yet nothing. Thanks for any help. Win Xp Pro SP2 |
Problem is I cannot get any sound from the center speaker ever
If you switch the plugs around so one of the side speakers become center speaker and other way around, you can check if there's a problem with the plug, and/or speakers. Try that! :) |
creative labs is a terrible company to deal with. for one they never admit
it's their product which is deficient, and secondly their english translators are unqualified to say the least. I would ditch SB and go with Realtek among others. "Antioch" wrote in message ... Hello, I have Logitech X530 (5.1) hooked up to a SB Live Card on my PC. All the plugs from the speakers have a place on the back of machine on the card without confusion. Problem is I cannot get any sound from the center speaker ever, even though it works in the SB test. I have already checked the settings in the windows sound file location and changed the to 5.1 yet nothing. Thanks for any help. Win Xp Pro SP2 |
Thanks Lenny, I already tried that and the speaker does work, but that still
only makes it a 4.1. To ediab: If I can't resolve this seemingly easy technical issue I will "ditch" SB for sure. Take Care. "ediab" wrote in message ... creative labs is a terrible company to deal with. for one they never admit it's their product which is deficient, and secondly their english translators are unqualified to say the least. I would ditch SB and go with Realtek among others. "Antioch" wrote in message ... Hello, I have Logitech X530 (5.1) hooked up to a SB Live Card on my PC. All the plugs from the speakers have a place on the back of machine on the card without confusion. Problem is I cannot get any sound from the center speaker ever, even though it works in the SB test. I have already checked the settings in the windows sound file location and changed the to 5.1 yet nothing. Thanks for any help. Win Xp Pro SP2 |
Thanks Lenny, I already tried that and the speaker does work, but that still only makes it a 4.1. Your issue is a most vexing one. I would recommend you: A - check Creative's speaker applet AND the standard windows control panel multimedia applet and make SURE 5.1 speakers are enabled. There is an option in Creative's applet to synch the setting there with the windows multimedia applet to make sure they both are set the same way, check if that's been disabled somehow. B - if this won't solve your problem or you've already done this a million times and torn out your hair in frustration, I suggest you uninstall the drivers using the control panel's add/remove programs thingy and then run creative's driver cleaner. It should be available from their website - well-hidden, no doubt. Then re-install the latest available driver set and see if things have improved. It might also be time for a harddrive spring cleaning , AKA, windows format and re-install... Good luck. |
Antioch wrote:
Hello, I have Logitech X530 (5.1) hooked up to a SB Live Card on my PC. All the plugs from the speakers have a place on the back of machine on the card without confusion. Problem is I cannot get any sound from the center speaker ever, even though it works in the SB test. I have already checked the settings in the windows sound file location and changed the to 5.1 yet nothing. Thanks for any help. Win Xp Pro SP2 You'll only ge sound from the centre speaker if you turn on CMSS for stereo sources. This can be done from Playcentre, in the player view when you expand the panel on the right. You should also get a centre channel if you play back a DVD (with 5.1 sound ) with the player set to SPDIF output and the Live's AC-3 decoder turned on. Alternatively you could set yer DVD player to 6 speaker mode. Games which support DirectSound 3D or DS3D with EAX will give you a centre channel (unless its based on the Quake 2 Engine (like the original Half-Life), in which case the centre will be dead. More modern DS3D games will give you a centre channel. Playing back MP3s won't give you centre channel unless you turn on CMSS. |
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