External Sound Blaster with lap

I am trying to?set up an external sound blaster to work with a laptop. It all seems to the working OK except that I cannot get the sound to come through the external speakers.When I do the speaker test the sound DOES come through the external speakers OK but all other sound is coming from the mini speakers in the laptop. I have got the external speakers connected to the headphone input on the soundblaster - that's OK, isn't it's. Angela

Angela,
Go to Sounds and Audio Devices in Windows Control Panel and make sure the Creative external soundcard you're using is setup as the default audio device.
Jason

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thank for help me...

Pixel,
The Audigy 2 ZS has a firewire in place of the db5 jack, but it has a separate db5 game port adapter. The adapter is nothing more than a metal backpanel bracket with the DB5 on it and a cable that connects to the game port jack on the card. The adapter fits in a neighboring PCI slot, and although it doesn't actually use the PCI socket, you can't put a PCI card in that socket along with the adapter. It is a good soundcard with at least a 4-fold improvement in signal-to-noise over the other Audigy and SB Li've cards that I have used. It sounds like the Audigy 2 ZS would work for you, if you can afford that extra PCI slot. Otherwise, you could try to find an Audigy 2 LS. It has the db5 game port on its backpanel bracket.
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I don't no if this problem was just discussed in another thread, if so please giveme simply the link...
I'm Italian, so sorry for my poor english or bad translation...
PC: Laptop, "Toshiba Satellite A 200 24E"
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