7.1 Audio! Only Front Speakers Play!

I have a 7.1 surround sound setup, im only missing the center channel speaker. and it is plugged into the 7.1 surround sound onboard audio and it already has the newest ac'97 audio drivers and everything. when i use the msi sound effects manager each speaker works but when i go to play music or games it only plays through my front 2 speakers. ive also been looking and cant find an digital signal processer.  much help please!

You need to play around with the driver configuration. Make sure your driver able to convert 2 channel input to 6 or 8 channels output. This also depends on your audio software you use. Some has the filters/DSP/drivers to do the conversion by itself, some really have to depend on your onboard audio's control panel.
Also remember to set to 8 speakers in Windows control panel.

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