Headphones and 5.1 speakers?

I have a 5.1 sound card and there are two plugs left. one for sound and the other for the mic, i tried plugging my headphone and mic in them but when doing the sound test i don't hear any sound coming from the headphone, i remember i used to have both sounds from my old 2.1 speakers and sound card.

MillerDaMan,
Which sound card you have? All I can think at the moment is you could have connected the headphone to the wrong connector jack on the sound card. It should be something like Line out .
Jason

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