Home Theater help for prewired system

When we built our house we had it prewired for 4 speakers in the living room and 2 speakers on the patio.  We have an HDTV in the living room as well.  We can't figure out if we can get an all-in-one system or if we will need to buy the components seperately...and we would prefer NOT to spend alot of money, so the all-in-one would be our preference.  Is it going to be possible for us to find a system that will support what we need?
Any advice/input would be helpful...

if you are prewired for IN WALL speakers than thats what you are going to have to do......if you prewired and the speaker wire is in the wall and you will have access then you go do an ON WALL speaker.....I personally NEVER sell a ALL in one system to my clients.  They have "tingy and twangy" sounds.  They normally do not provide enough output power to really enjoy, sometimes they don't have enough inputs for components and alot of them are just plain CRAP.
Your statement of not wanting to spend alot of money is typical of every customer in todays world.  They want the best but don't want to pay for it.  You could do a nice Onkyo setup for under $700 dollars.  If thats to much money then go ahead and get the 200 dollar all in one player/surround......

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