How to enable rear speakers (old creative ca

i've a quite old sound card by creative and i am using Windows XP. the sound card name displayed in device manager is 'Creative AudioPCI' and in sound settings through control panel its name appears as 'Creative Sound Blaster PCI'
i've creative inspire 4. sound system but the problem is that only front speakers give me sound. windows itself installed the dri've for the card. i dont have the CD.
do i need to install some app by creative to let the rear speakers enabled?

Griever wrote:
no, there are two other jacks for headphones and microphone. they are colored blue and pink respecti'vely.
i plugged only the front of my speakers to the '2' sound output jack but this time no sound came out of any speaker.
Try w/ these --> Asio4All, Nati've Instruments TRAKTOR BeatPort Player
--> install the Asio4All driver and BeatPort Player
--> set speakers to 4/4. (speaker settings on CT or Windows software)
--> turn CMSS processing (or equal settings) OFF and all other effects OFF too
--> set BeatPort Player output to Rear L/R channels and start playing
--> start some other playback software you have there (winamp, WMP, etc.) and start playing it too (this normally outputs only to Front L/R)
If you get different signals out from Front and Rear, your card should be capable least for quatraphonic output.
jutapaMessage Edited by jutapa on 07-08-2006 0:29 PM

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If you are listening to stereo content like MP3's or CD's and you would like the sound to be played over your surround sound speaker system, you can enable CMSS 3D on your X-Fi card. If you are playing computer games, the X-Fi's Virtual 3D via CMSS gives a highly realistic surround sound over headphones.
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http://www.ask.asia.creative.com/wwimages/audio_int/xfi/xfi_cmss_entertainment.JPG
http://www.ask.asia.creative.com/wwimages/audio_int/xfi/xfi_cmss_entertainment2.JPG
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http://www.ask.asia.creative.com/wwimages/audio_int/xfi/xfi_gamemode_eq.jpg
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