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3 months ago I built my first computer from scratch. Wasn't sure I could do it, but was very happy to see the computer work perfectly, well almost. I have SB audigy II ZS sound card. Have plantronics headphones/mike along with plantronics speaker/headphone switch. Speakers work great by themselves. Even when I plug in the switch into the sound card and then plug in the speakers into the switch, the speakers work great. When I plug in the headset to the switch or computer I get nothing but static. I am wondering, is there some sort of setting that I need to be using to get the headset to work? When I test the headphone and speaker on a different device, they work, so I know the equipment is not broken. Please, any advise will be greatly appreciated as i am running out of ideas. THanks!

I got a similar story to tell... here you go:?I bought a Teufel Concept E Magnum Digital (http://www.teufel.de/de/Komplett-Sys...m?show=technik?-> if anyone's interested [german]), which combines 5. speakers (Concept E Magnum Power Edition) with a digital decoder station (decoderstation 3) - I never had digital sound 'til now... ?Everything set up, plugged together with my Creative Fatalty FPS (I got the version with the front X-Fi I/O dri've) so that I've plugged it in the optical out of my sound card... Quite everything worked... but only with two channel sound... only if I used the upmix function of the decoder station I got sound of my rear speakers (even if I played AC3 sound). So I thought, that there is something wrong with the optical output... plugged in to spdif... the same: only two channel output... then I searched the whole internet for a solution, tried different opinions and it worked... lol, I even don't know which option saved my ass... I believe, that it was the option to set the "SPDIF-Out" in playback devices as the default one... even if I played sound with the optical out... because I never found any option for that plug... well it doesn't matter, I guess... it works... ?Greetings,Drago

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