Audigy 2 NX Dolby Digital Probl

Ive read through the stickys and most nx posts and i just dont understand why the dolby digital light wont illuminate on my audigy 2 nx.
Im running logitech z-680's and have tried 6ch direct, optical, and coax in an attempt to get the dolby digital enabled. Ive been on the device control and selected the S/PDIF passthrough, all the 96khz, 48khz, and 44. khz options and it just wont work !
Theres also something weird in my speaker settings on the creative software, whereby i try and select digital output only whilst my speaker config is 5. then it selects digital output only and the speakers alwasys change back to 2. !!!!! It's extremely annoying.
The only way i've heard tru dolby digital is through my ps2 and it is awesome, i would like to hear it through my pc, so a solution would be greatly appreciated. Any Ideas ?
Simo

There're many other people which have the same problem. I have it too, of course.
I have tried the test mode and was able to do all the steps described, but at the end it just goes back to flashing like before. I bought the device in January 2004 and it just now will not power up.
I think I would never buy any creative product again, because the products are almost bugged and the customer service is at zero level.

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batfastad wrote:
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Ok, so I go to Creative Device Control, and on the PCI/USB tab I've changed the sampling rate to 48khz.
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The bit depth is still at 6bit
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Will having that set at 48kHz, but recording to a 44.kHz 6bit wav file theoretically reduce the quality of the recording - compared to having it set at 44.kHz and recording a wav at 44.kHz?
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