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"Glenn" wrote in message
... Folk wrote: On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 09:24:13 +1300, Glenn wrote: That would be good option then. Do you know what the application was called that you could choose "simulated 4 speaker surround" with on the SB live? Can't you get that by using the Windows Control Panel "Sounds and Multimedia" applet? I couldn't see the option under windows XP. You can select the speaker type, such as desktop stereo speakers but nothing for a 4 speaker setup. I found that creative have an application called "Creative Speaker Settings" which I figured might help a lot. But unfortunately when I try and run it I get a message that no sound card detected, even the sound card is running fine with the creative driver installed. Searching google I found advice to disable my on-board sound card (it was already disabled in the bios) and disable Plug and play in the bios (it was enabled so I disabled it) I uninstalled the driver and installed the latest driver off the creative site, which didn't complain about not have a compatible sound card, and then tried installing Creative Speaker Settings, but once again had the same problem. I managed to track down the original SB Audigy CD, so I uninstalled the driver and tried using the CD, and again I got the no sound card detected message. IIRC you have to do the install from the main CD setup. Installing just the drivers from the CD isn't enough. HTH |
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Folk wrote:
That would be good option then. Do you know what the application was called that you could choose "simulated 4 speaker surround" with on the SB live? Can't you get that by using the Windows Control Panel "Sounds and Multimedia" applet? I think so, I only use windows at work, but have no sound in my work machine, so no idea. |
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T Shadow wrote:
"Glenn" wrote in message ... Folk wrote: On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 09:24:13 +1300, Glenn wrote: That would be good option then. Do you know what the application was called that you could choose "simulated 4 speaker surround" with on the SB live? Can't you get that by using the Windows Control Panel "Sounds and Multimedia" applet? I couldn't see the option under windows XP. You can select the speaker type, such as desktop stereo speakers but nothing for a 4 speaker setup. I found that creative have an application called "Creative Speaker Settings" which I figured might help a lot. But unfortunately when I try and run it I get a message that no sound card detected, even the sound card is running fine with the creative driver installed. Searching google I found advice to disable my on-board sound card (it was already disabled in the bios) and disable Plug and play in the bios (it was enabled so I disabled it) I uninstalled the driver and installed the latest driver off the creative site, which didn't complain about not have a compatible sound card, and then tried installing Creative Speaker Settings, but once again had the same problem. I managed to track down the original SB Audigy CD, so I uninstalled the driver and tried using the CD, and again I got the no sound card detected message. IIRC you have to do the install from the main CD setup. Installing just the drivers from the CD isn't enough. HTH I couldn't get into the main CD setup, as before I can get to the main CD setup it complains "no sound card detected". It gives this complaint if the (web) driver is installed, or if there is no driver installed. I tried to 'explore' the CD to find just the driver, but didn't have any luck. |
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Glenn wrote:
T Shadow wrote: "Glenn" wrote in message ... Folk wrote: On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 09:24:13 +1300, Glenn wrote: That would be good option then. Do you know what the application was called that you could choose "simulated 4 speaker surround" with on the SB live? Can't you get that by using the Windows Control Panel "Sounds and Multimedia" applet? I couldn't see the option under windows XP. You can select the speaker type, such as desktop stereo speakers but nothing for a 4 speaker setup. I found that creative have an application called "Creative Speaker Settings" which I figured might help a lot. But unfortunately when I try and run it I get a message that no sound card detected, even the sound card is running fine with the creative driver installed. Searching google I found advice to disable my on-board sound card (it was already disabled in the bios) and disable Plug and play in the bios (it was enabled so I disabled it) I uninstalled the driver and installed the latest driver off the creative site, which didn't complain about not have a compatible sound card, and then tried installing Creative Speaker Settings, but once again had the same problem. I managed to track down the original SB Audigy CD, so I uninstalled the driver and tried using the CD, and again I got the no sound card detected message. IIRC you have to do the install from the main CD setup. Installing just the drivers from the CD isn't enough. HTH I couldn't get into the main CD setup, as before I can get to the main CD setup it complains "no sound card detected". It gives this complaint if the (web) driver is installed, or if there is no driver installed. I tried to 'explore' the CD to find just the driver, but didn't have any luck. You could uninstall the Windows drivers and on rebooting, when the machine asks you whether to auto-install a driver, select no and then manually install the driver. The Windows built-in driver when installed I think causes the Creative setup to not install. |
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Glenn wrote:
Is it possible to have to identical stereo outputs on the sound blaster audigy 2 card? There are 3 outputs for when using a 5.1 speaker system, but I just want to have a pair of stereo speakers by the computer, and the same stereo audio running to the TV. If I try and use any of the other speaker outputs there is nothing there, all the audio only comes from speaker output no.1 Is there a configuration program or a setting somewhere that can be tweaked to do this? The only program I have for controlling the sound card is the Creative surround mixer. I suspect there are more applications for this card that I don't have, to allow greater configuration. Yes. Simply set the speaker configuration to 4 speaker and then select the CMSS mode with stereo x2 surround. |
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"Glenn" wrote in message ... T Shadow wrote: "Glenn" wrote in message ... Folk wrote: On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 09:24:13 +1300, Glenn wrote: That would be good option then. Do you know what the application was called that you could choose "simulated 4 speaker surround" with on the SB live? Can't you get that by using the Windows Control Panel "Sounds and Multimedia" applet? I couldn't see the option under windows XP. You can select the speaker type, such as desktop stereo speakers but nothing for a 4 speaker setup. I found that creative have an application called "Creative Speaker Settings" which I figured might help a lot. But unfortunately when I try and run it I get a message that no sound card detected, even the sound card is running fine with the creative driver installed. Searching google I found advice to disable my on-board sound card (it was already disabled in the bios) and disable Plug and play in the bios (it was enabled so I disabled it) I uninstalled the driver and installed the latest driver off the creative site, which didn't complain about not have a compatible sound card, and then tried installing Creative Speaker Settings, but once again had the same problem. I managed to track down the original SB Audigy CD, so I uninstalled the driver and tried using the CD, and again I got the no sound card detected message. IIRC you have to do the install from the main CD setup. Installing just the drivers from the CD isn't enough. HTH I couldn't get into the main CD setup, as before I can get to the main CD setup it complains "no sound card detected". It gives this complaint if the (web) driver is installed, or if there is no driver installed. I tried to 'explore' the CD to find just the driver, but didn't have any luck. Remove the drivers for your soundcard completely; - Use Add or Remove Programs in the Control Panel if you've installed with the setup program. - Then go "Control Panel"/"System"/"Hardware" tab/"Device Manager" - Select the option to "Show hidden devices" in the "View" menu. - Expand the "Sound, video and game controllers". - Right-click and choose "Uninstall" the "Creative Game Port" and the "Creative SB Audigy..." Do NOT reboot. - Now expand the "Non-Plug and Play Drivers" and uninstall "PfDetNT" (or similar called pfmod or/and pfmodnt -- uninstall them all) Do NOT reboot untill all of them have been uninstalled. (- *) - Now reboot. - Cancell the automatic installation of drivers. - Install by running the CD. * = You might have to do it even more thorough by removing all the Creative oem*.inf files in C:\Windows\inf\ before the reboot step. Open each of them and if they contain "Creative Technology Ltd." - delete them and the corresponding *.pnf Hope this helps. As to the original question in this thread I think there might be an option, but that involves using 3rd party drivers instead of the drivers from Creative. They can be found he http://kxproject.lugosoft.com/index.php?language=en Cheers |
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Sharanga Dayananda wrote:
Glenn wrote: T Shadow wrote: "Glenn" wrote in message ... Folk wrote: On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 09:24:13 +1300, Glenn wrote: That would be good option then. Do you know what the application was called that you could choose "simulated 4 speaker surround" with on the SB live? Can't you get that by using the Windows Control Panel "Sounds and Multimedia" applet? I couldn't see the option under windows XP. You can select the speaker type, such as desktop stereo speakers but nothing for a 4 speaker setup. I found that creative have an application called "Creative Speaker Settings" which I figured might help a lot. But unfortunately when I try and run it I get a message that no sound card detected, even the sound card is running fine with the creative driver installed. Searching google I found advice to disable my on-board sound card (it was already disabled in the bios) and disable Plug and play in the bios (it was enabled so I disabled it) I uninstalled the driver and installed the latest driver off the creative site, which didn't complain about not have a compatible sound card, and then tried installing Creative Speaker Settings, but once again had the same problem. I managed to track down the original SB Audigy CD, so I uninstalled the driver and tried using the CD, and again I got the no sound card detected message. IIRC you have to do the install from the main CD setup. Installing just the drivers from the CD isn't enough. HTH I couldn't get into the main CD setup, as before I can get to the main CD setup it complains "no sound card detected". It gives this complaint if the (web) driver is installed, or if there is no driver installed. I tried to 'explore' the CD to find just the driver, but didn't have any luck. You could uninstall the Windows drivers and on rebooting, when the machine asks you whether to auto-install a driver, select no and then manually install the driver. The Windows built-in driver when installed I think causes the Creative setup to not install. I don't think I have the windows driver loaded. I uninstalled the creative driver and rebooted, and there was no sound and the windows new hardware installation asked me to install a new driver for the sound card. (so no windows driver?) I cancelled the windows new hardware installation and tried to run the creative CD. It complained about sound card not detected. One possibility is that my on-board sound is confusing the Creative applications, but it is disabled in the bios. I ASSume it isn't working in windows, but I don't have any speakers plugged into the on-board sound. Do I need to disable it from within Windows XP as well? |
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Remove the drivers for your soundcard completely; - Use Add or Remove Programs in the Control Panel if you've installed with the setup program. - Then go "Control Panel"/"System"/"Hardware" tab/"Device Manager" - Select the option to "Show hidden devices" in the "View" menu. - Expand the "Sound, video and game controllers". - Right-click and choose "Uninstall" the "Creative Game Port" and the "Creative SB Audigy..." Do NOT reboot. - Now expand the "Non-Plug and Play Drivers" and uninstall "PfDetNT" (or similar called pfmod or/and pfmodnt -- uninstall them all) Do NOT reboot untill all of them have been uninstalled. (- *) - Now reboot. - Cancell the automatic installation of drivers. - Install by running the CD. * = You might have to do it even more thorough by removing all the Creative oem*.inf files in C:\Windows\inf\ before the reboot step. Open each of them and if they contain "Creative Technology Ltd." - delete them and the corresponding *.pnf Hope this helps. Thanks for the info, I will give it a try when I get home from work. As to the original question in this thread I think there might be an option, but that involves using 3rd party drivers instead of the drivers from Creative. They can be found he http://kxproject.lugosoft.com/index.php?language=en If the 3rd party driver works then I can abandon the hassle of trying to get the creative applications to detect the card. I'll try this option first. Cheers |
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Sharanga Dayananda wrote:
Glenn wrote: Is it possible to have to identical stereo outputs on the sound blaster audigy 2 card? There are 3 outputs for when using a 5.1 speaker system, but I just want to have a pair of stereo speakers by the computer, and the same stereo audio running to the TV. If I try and use any of the other speaker outputs there is nothing there, all the audio only comes from speaker output no.1 Is there a configuration program or a setting somewhere that can be tweaked to do this? The only program I have for controlling the sound card is the Creative surround mixer. I suspect there are more applications for this card that I don't have, to allow greater configuration. Yes. Simply set the speaker configuration to 4 speaker and then select the CMSS mode with stereo x2 surround. Where do I find this option? |
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Suddenly, Glenn sprang forth and uttered these pithy words:
Is it possible to have to identical stereo outputs on the sound blaster audigy 2 card? Yes. Run the "EAX" console (the oval shaped button at the bottom of the apps). Click on the "CMSS 3d" tab. Click on "Enabler CMSS 3D". Click on "Stereo Sound" at the bottom. I like the functions in these apps but the configuration is a bit absurd. Like running the "normal" speaker config, it overwrites the THX configuration you have... GRRR -- aaronl at consultant dot com For every expert, there is an equal and opposite expert. - Arthur C. Clarke |
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