Audigy 2 zs 5.1 channel prob

I'm using an audigy 2 zs card with logitech z-5300 5. speakers and it was working a few days ago before coming back to school. Currently I'm getting sound from all my speakers when playing music or dvds, but when I try to calibrate them using Creative speaker settings or THX setup when I press the channel or noise buttons I hear "Front Left" from my front left and front center speakers and "Front Right" from my front right and center speakers, and nothing from any other speaker.
I have a feeling I just have some setting wrong somwhere cause I've checked my connections repeatedly and have tried fully uninstalling and reinstalling the card and drivers. If anyone else has experienced this and can help I'd appreciate it.
-Jon

Go to creative mixer and make sure you have all 5 sliders working.
Go through all creative apps and enable 5.
Go to Windows control panel and sound / speakers / advanced and make sure its at 5..
In control panel change view to classic and now you will see Audio HQ. go through it also and make sure its set up right.
Message Edited by xmn on 08-30-2005 2:36 AM

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