No center speaker sou

I have a Sound Blaster Li've! 5. sound card and just recently bought some Inspire P5800 speakers, I had alot of trouble getting them to work at first (problems in AudioHQ) but eventually I got those sorted out. Now all the speakers work but the center one. When the speakers weren't working I could unplug the rear speaker cord and get sound from the center speaker as if it were one of the front speakers, so I know it's not a problem with the speaker itself. Since I fixed that I haven't been able to hear a thing out of the center speaker, but I know it's working because when nothing is playing it makes the same very light hissing noise that the other speakers make. I've tried everything I know to do and still no luck. Also, it makes no sound in a Speaker Test. I have looked through the forums and not been able to find anything about this kind of problem, and if there was something I didn't see it. Is there anyone that can help me?

I have a similar problem. Config:
- Alienware P4 .3Ghz
- 52 MB RAM
- 80 GB X 2 (C & D)
- SB Li've Platinum with Midland 5. speakers
- Plexwriter 2/0/32A
- DVD -R/+R burner
- ATI 9800 All-in-wonder card with 28MB of memory (plugged into line-in)
- XP Home SP2 (upgraded from WIN ME)
- Directx 9.0b
- Current drivers for above.
I only get sound out of the center speaker, or more often than not, the right front speacker. When I run the test on the AudioHQ and the center speaker is the only working speaker:
Test FL - No sound
Test C - No sound
Test FR - No sound
Test RL - "Rear Left" comes out of the FR speaker
Test RR - "Rear Right" comes out of the FL speaker
When only the FR speaker is working I get:
Test FL - No sound
Test C - No sound
Test FR - No sound
Test RL - "Rear Left" comes out of the FR speaker
Test RR - No sound
I have a Midland 5. speaker system with a controller that sets the 5. balance, analog/digital and Prologic. This device could be the one that is causing the problem, but I don't know how to circumvent the controller to see if I can isolate the problem.
If I play around with AudioHQ (i.e. switching modes back and forth) I can get all the speakers to work. This problem seems to be random. I do reboot and that only works part of the time.
I just loaded the KX drivers I saw mentioned elsewhere. They are very nice. Really makes the card perform. But same problem popped up this morning. A reboot fixed it.
I tried running the TV and got sound on the front speakers, but not the rear. Switched back to Rhapsody and now get it on all speakers, but not the subwoofer. I was thinking maybe the ATI drivers were messing things up, but that doesn't seem to be the case. I just seems to happen after the computer has been on for awhile.
Any suggestions?Message Edited by playbak on 02-7-2005 07:38 PM

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