5.1 Speaker Problems - No Sound from rear/

So I have recently reinstalled windows XP and I just found my xfi cd to day and I installed the drivers / audio panel.
When I did the speaker test while setting it up, the only sound that would come out is from the front left / front right speakers. No sound at all from the sub/rear.
The weird thing is, when I am listening to other audio, there is a tiny bit of sound coming through the rear speakers.
The problem is not with the speakers, they worked perfectly before I reinstalled and I did not touch them at all while doing that.Message Edited by bobby77 on 05-03-200702:42 PM

Sound similar to this post.
http://forums.creative.com/creativel...essage.id=9099
Jason

Similar Messages

4.1 Speaker Setup - No sound from rear speak

Opsys: Windows 2000 (just installed)
Card: Audigy 2 ZS Platinum
Software: Installed full sets of Creative software, everything runs
I'm trying to set up a 4. system where I'm using 2 set sets of stereo speakers plugged into line outs # and #2.
The problem is that I get sound only from line out #. All attempts at plugging the second set of speakers into the other line outs doesn't do anything for sound. I have switched the 2 sets around and they both work from lineout #.
The speaker calibration program only works for the front left and right speaker (i.e. no rear speaker output). I have tried more than just the 4. option, but none of them produce any sound to the rear speakers.
I have enabled EAX and CMSS, but this hasn't done any good. Still no sound from the rear speakers.
I checked the speaker set up and the volumes are midway for all speakers, both front and back.
Soooo. My guess is driver problems or maybe the 2 way stereo plug doesn't work with the 3 way plugs of line out #2 and #3.
Any ideas?
Rick

Okay, I get the stupid award for this one. I didn't notice that I was plugging my rear speakers into to the mic instead of the lineout 2. Well, in my defense, they are symetrically located around lineout and they do fit.
I would suggest people with sound issues to look at the other utilities. The one that helped was the Thx Setup console. This displays all info about the speakers, analog/digital settings, and even a picture showing the card plugs (that got the noodle thinking).
Also the Surround Mixer showed the correct configuration of the 4 speakers but without a sub hooked up. This fits my 2 stereo connections exactly.
Cheers.

Why no sound from rear speakers (Xfi X

Vista 32bit, CMSS enabled, why no sound from rear speakers with music? XP no problem at all, only in Vista. Using latest drivers (v2.5.0004).
I realize I'm hoping against hope to get a useful answer at the Creative forums, but I do believe in miracles and the odd one happening once or twice in a lifetime, lol.

Well, I think I have an answer, from Catherina-CL's Audio in Windows Vista post. 2.The Vista audio architecture changes the way per-stream audio processing works, which required us to write new software to support this
Issues that may be encountered:
CMSS no longer works on audio streams from the OS.
Status:
Features based on Windows XP architecture must be rewritten to conform to the new Vista architecture, and we have a team of software engineers, project managers and testers dedicated to this task in order to provide our customers the same seamless audio experience under Windows Vista that they enjoyed under Windows XP. However, I found a somewhat crappy solution, at least with my old Altec Lansing 4 speaker/ subwoofer system. Unplug the surround cable from your subwoofer (unplugging it from the card itself has no effect). That at least will make all the speakers work, even if it's not true surround. Good for listening to music loud.

Soft sound from rear speakers while playing mov

Hi,?Gaming and music is done via all speakers (i'm using analogue connection) just fine, but when i play a movie (using powerdvd 6?deluxe) i get faint sounds from the rear speakers. I had contact with creative's help desk in my country and we ran thru all system settings (e.g. thnx console). Everything was configured correctly., tho still a weak sound from rear speakers. They could not help me further ?I'm using a x-fi fatality soundcard with a logitech z-5400 speakerset.
When running a movie it shows a logo near the system tray : dolby digital. I am hoping one of u has a solution to this problem. Greetz,?Nask

In most of the cases, movies with mutichannel soundtrack do not use constantly every speakers. I think your case is normal and that's only your DVD's mix (as many DVD) that concentrates more on the front. try some of the sample there: http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/do...s/trailers.phpIf the first one sound at the same level for each speakers then it's alright.

X-Fi Fatal1ty No sound from rear or center in speaker tests?

I just installed the X Fi Fatalty Xtreme Gamer and cannot get sound from the rear, center or subwoofer in the speaker tests. All the speakers (Logitech G-5 Gamer)?work playing MP3's but that's it. Installed latest drivers uninstalled an reinstalled card etc?Can anyone help with this before I box everything up and ship it back to newegg? Running Vista 64Message Edited by ovrclkd on 0-23-200807:6 PM

After carefully checking this again, it turns out clicking front left or right the sound comes out BOTH the front and rear. To make things more confusing when all but the line (green) 3.5 jack was unplugged ALL the speakers would work. LONG STORY SHORT I SENT THIS P.O.S. BACK TO NEWEGG FOR REFUND. Every thing works great with the onboard audio, I'm in the market for a 7. that works.Maybe Auzentech? Any suggestions?!! With all the issues the peeps are having someone must be using a card that works out of the box in Vista 64

After Windows XP clean re-load and SB Live installation, getting no sound from rear speake

I had to re-load my Sound Blaster Li've! Value but now I don't have any sound from my rear speakers. I have set the SB settings for four speakers and my Sound and Audio setting is for Quadraphonic. I registered for auto SB updates but the system could not find any updates for my installation.
Thanks

After reading some threads I come away with some ideas and thoughts. I haven't tried everything, and there are a lot of unhappy customers out there. Creative, take note. In today's competiti've markets, you must look at yourself from the customer's viewpoint. Right or wrong, you must stri've to delight your customers, and resolve issues. Read about "Six Sigma", this is the way business will be successful in the coming years.

No sound from rear speake

ok, im using an audigy 2zs, previously all my speakers have been working fine however recently the rear speakers have stopped working. i have diaged the speakers they are working fine, i have uninstalled and reinstalled the creai've drivers and updated them. Also i noticed that my rear speakers wasnt producing any sound after using win dvd 6.
i have looked through the discussion forum and knowledge base but with no solution. judging by other users problems with loss of sound to rear speakers this seems to be a serious problem to which creative has no solution. anyway any help would be much appreciated. thanx.

nickyt8 wrote:
ok, im using an audigy 2zs, previously all my speakers have been working fine however recently the rear speakers have stopped working. i have diaged the speakers they are working fine, i have uninstalled and reinstalled the creai've drivers and updated them. Also i noticed that my rear speakers wasnt producing any sound after using win dvd 6.
i have looked through the discussion forum and knowledge base but with no solution. judging by other users problems with loss of sound to rear speakers this seems to be a serious problem to which creative has no solution. anyway any help would be much appreciated. thanx.
Not sure if this help but have you try enabling CMSS in eax console?

Really low sound from rear left spea

I have 5. headphones and when i have them pluged into my xtreamgamer i barly get any sound from my rear left speaker, i know it works because if i plug it in my basic MB soundcard it works fine. Is this a known problem or a fix for this?

I've installed the latest drivers, made sure the the jack is plugged in right (theres only one, that comes from the Monitor or the headphones). The CD only has an installation guide, and i know onboard sound is disabled because i never had one in the first place after a recent reformat. and before that reformat sound came out from both sides normally, so i know something is wrong with the sound card.
EDIT: i just did a random tests, and i found out that the right speaker is working, but it is playing extreamly low. i had to blare up my volume up to 00% and i bearly heard it. i've checked the playback control, and played around with it and still have same problem.Message Edited by Bigs80 on --200606:49 AM

Xi-Fi: No sound from rear speakers in Vi

Hey everybody, I am not hearing any sound from my rear speakers (I have a 5. setup) in Windows Vista. I have of course updated to the latest Vista driver for the Xi-Fi card, all of my connections are correctly set up on my hardware, and I have made sure that I have 5. Speakers selected in the Xi-Fi Volume Panel.
The strange thing is, if I go into the Windows Sound panel from the Control Panel and do a test from there, I *do* hear sound from my rear speakers, however this is the only time I can hear it, not while listening to music, watching movies, or playing games.
If anyone can help me with this problem I'd be deeply appreciati've. Thanks!

Unfortunately, I have gone through 2 SoundBlaster cards on my Vista machine and am _still_ having this same issue. On my XP machine everything worked great with my Audigy 2 card... once I upgraded to Vista, nadda (and not to mention all the cool features & software that worked on XP didn't work in Vista)... so I upgraded to an X-Fi Fatalty Platinum card after reading on the Creative website that most functionality had returned with the new drivers (including CMSS supposedly). While some of the software is now available, the whole reason I upgraded my card was so that CMSS would work!
Like everyone else, I have CMSS enabled and when I do the speaker test in Windows & Creative Audio Console, I hear test tones from the rear speakers. However, when I listen to music or do anything else involving audio, I get nothing from the rears (unless I turn on one of the effects which I don't want as they mess with the sound too much - and even then, I only hear a slight reverby effect from the rears on certain effects). I am extremely disappointed that I spent a lot of money (much more than most good soundcards) and STILL HAVE NO REAR SOUND!
Also, is anyone getting a warning when opening the Sound options in Windows Control Panel? This is what I am getting:
http://www.snapdri've.net/files/56394/AudioEnhancements.JPG
Which tells me that something isn't right... I am hoping it is due to remnants of my audigy drivers... this is the only reason I have a glint of hope - and this: after googling this issue, I did find another forum discussing the same issue and one person was actually able to resolve it... here was his solution:
"I uninstalled the drivers for the third time, but this time went into my creative folder and deleted all of the audio console files and what not that there was NOT an uninstaller for. I then rebooted. I redownloaded and reinstalled the latest drivers from the website. I rebooted again. I then downloaded the latest vista audio console launcher and installed it. I then rebooted again. I turned some music on and the CMSS works now! And it sound SO much better! IT EVEN GAVE ME MY MIC OPTIONS BACK. The only thing I can think of was that I had an old XP version of the audio console, and thats why the CMSS didn't work, and it took away my mic options."
If anyone does resolve this issue, PLEASE POST YOUR SOLUTION HERE! Thanks - it would be much appreciated and would surely be helping out many others with the same frustrating problem.

Having problem hearing sound from my hp notebook 625 pc

I cannot hear sound from my hp 625 notebook PC, i only hear sound when i connect a headset to it or an external speaker. But when i use the IDT control i downloaded, the sound only comes for a period of time when i click on the test speaker.
Please help me out

i have the same problem like you !! pfff tooo many headec ... pfff ... i resolve the problem like this in the end of time after much days . I uninstal IDT audio driver after computer take a restart ... and when was on take automaticly the hd audio driver from microsoft ... a audio device and it s work very good . So give to heel IDT hd audio driver !

No sound from rear or center of Inspire 5300 speakers

I have an Audigy 2 Platinum card and an Inspire 5300 speaker system. All was well until a few days when sound only came from the two front speakers. The creative speaker settings tool no longer shows any speaker settings to choose from. Windows allows me to choose 5.1 setting, but of course it doesn't work. I re-installed the latest drivers and media go! software but problem persisits. I ran the diagnostic tool and I received the following error: "NTWriteWordConfig-CONFIG_READWORD". Could this be the cause of my problem, and if so, how can I fix it's Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

i have a similar problem
in my case the problem is with the front c/sub,i have no output on the sub.
it would be surely great if someone could throw a look at this and help out...

No sound from rear speakers on my Inspire 5500, all I get is a hissing sound! :(

Hi ppl, im new ere.
I just bought a Surround sound, i put it together, play music, and thers no sound from my rear speakers. its the same when i play a game and look at a DVD (which DO support 5.1 sound)
I already made sure all the connections in the amp and subwoofer are in properly and they are...
And I also know that it cudnt be my sound card because it also supports 8.1 and im only trying to use a 5.1.
Please help someone....
All help is greatly appreciated
Dave

Hi Dave,
First things first. For music and games (and the speaker test in Windows), what you're experiencing is normal. A digital connection like coaxial or optical SPDIF can only pass over either an encoded stream (like AC3 on DVDs), or a stereo PCM signal. If you're playing music/games, the sound is not an AC3 stream, but essentially several stereo signals. The connection simply cannot pass this over. For more detail, read this forum thread and this knowledgebase article. You can turn on the upmix function on the decoder to give sound out of more speakers, but this is an effect, so you will not get the positional sound out of games for instance.
For DVDs however, this should work perfectly, as you are sending an unprocessed AC3 stream from the system directly to your speakers. All you need to do is adjust the settings and it should work fine. Make sure the DVD software's audio option is set to SPDIF/bypass, rather than 5.1. Choosing 5.1 in the software will make it decode the signal rather than pass it through. Then check the settings for the card and it should work.
Cat

No sound from rear 5.1 speakers plz h

hi all,
i have a audgity 2 zs card and i have 5. speakers, im not reciving any sound from the 2 rear speakers, i've tryed downloading the lastest drivers, checked all the wirering everything is in its rightful place but why am i getting no sound? i know the speakers work coz i've swaped where there pluged in and thay play no problem.. i've looked at the back of the pc and you have the 3 coloured holes where the clour coded wires go in all it seem that u dont get any sound form the black hole.. is the card fautly? this is really winding me up, i just cant figger it out! plz help me.. woman in distress!!LOL
thanks,
legacylady

Catherina-CL wrote:
I (hopefully) clarified some of this in the other thread, but this is not the way it works. Read the other thread for a more detailed rundown.
When you're playing anything that isn't a true Dolby Digital 5. source (with an encoded AC3 stream), like a game or music, you will only get stereo over a digital connection. That is normal, that is not a bug or a mistake, but that is normal. No coaxial wire is capable of passing over a 5. signal that isn't an encoded AC3 stream. If you're playing a DVD, that will work, as it's an encoded AC3 stream, but as I mentioned the card and DVD software have to be set to bypass the signal, to the encoded AC3 stream goes over the cable untouched, and your external decoder can process the signal.
Cat
Message Edited by Catherina-CL on <SPAN class=date_text>0-7-2006 <SPAN class=time_text>09:2 AM
Yes I know all that.But even if it's not a AC3 signal, like when you play a stereo MP3 file, shouldn't the Dolby Digital led on th external decoder be on anyways? Since it does transfer from a Digital out to a Digital in. I say this, because when using my internal Dolby Digital feature (nVidia Soundstorm) from the coaxial SPDIF out to the Inspire 5500's coaxial digital in, the Dolby Digital led is always on. I know it's no real 5. DD, but it is a digital signal, so it detects it and triggers the led.So I expect this to be the case with the Audigy 2 SZ too.

No sound from rear speakers

I have an hp pavilion a6863w running Win7. I can't get any sound from my rear surounds and I can't find any speaker adjustments. With Vista you could adjust for room configuration and everything. Is that in Win7 hidden somewhere? I have looked everywhere I can think.
This question was solved.
View Solution.

Hi:
Perhaps you should download and install the latest RealTek HD audio driver for your PC directly from RealTek. This driver may allow you to have more options to configure your audio output than you currently have.
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=24&PFid=24&Level=4&Conn=3&DownT...
Accept the agreement, download and install the first one on the list.
Paul

HP Mini 110-1160SA problem recording sound from sound card

I am trying to record sound from the sound card itself rather than an external or internal microphone, using a free software called Sonarca Sound Recorder. For example, I play radio from the internet using the BBC Iplayer. I have Windows 7 Starter. When I use the Windows Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Manage Audio Devices, I get a window called Sound. I press the Recording tab, and get a choice of Internal Microphone, External Microphone, and Stereo Mix. According to my sound recorder software's documentation, I need to select that Stereo Mix, because it means "record whatever the sound card is playing". However, the Stereo Mix recording device, despite having a red tick mark next to it is "Currently Unavailable". How do I make it available?

to be honest, i am not sure about your problems, normally, you need to set stereo mix as default device, then using recording devices to record sound on windows 7. Since you cannot make it, why not insall a virtual sound device, it works like a real one, install this streaming music recorder on your system, start recording. Just test it out by yourself.

5.1 Speaker Problems - No Sound from rear/

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for