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I just purchased an MSI motherboard (K8N SLI Platinum) with the embedded Live! 24 bit sound card (chip?). Before that (and for the past 3 years), I had an other MSI m/b with a discrete Live! 5.1 sound card installed and everything was perfect: I had the 4 conductor miniplug to DIN and the DIN to DIN cables used, the "Digital DIN" input chosen on the decoder, as well as the "Fourpoint / 5.1 DIN" and I was getting:
When playing 2-channel audio: Output from all 6 speakers (not surround)
When playing 6-channel audio (avi's with AC3, DVD's etc.): True surround output from all 6 speakers
When playing games: True surround from all 6 speakers.
Please bear in mind that I was never using CMSS, because I never needed to, or wanted to. Also, I was getting the surround sound from the AC3 encoded avi's by using ffdshow (although the card was supposed to be able to decode it).
Unfortunatelly, since yesterday that I installed my new system, I'm trying to find an explanation of what is wrong with it. What I use now is only the Coaxial cable from the m/b to the decoder. What I get this time is:
When playing 2-channel audio: Output from only the 2 front speakers (I can have all 6 working if I enable CMSS, but this is pseudo-surround which makes music sound weird)
When playing 6-channel audio (avi's with AC3): I'm not sure at the moment, but I believe that I'll find a way to fix it, whatever it might be (if there's a problem)
When playing games: (especially Doom 3) I can hear sound only if I choose CMSS which isn't true surround or, if I choose Dolby ProLogic which isn't true surround, as well. In this second option, I believe that the problem is on the decoder itself and not on the game, because the game was never supposed to output Dolby sound, only surround.
By reading pjc's excellent post (http://forums.creative.com/creativel...message.id=270) , I realized that what I have two problems coming from the same company: Creative.
The first problem is that the so-advertised embedded Live! 24 on the MSI m/b (which was the only reason for choosing the specific m/b, although I was ready to buy the DFI LanParty one), doesn't have an Analog/Digital Out Jack in which I can directly connect the SPDIF cable as before (with the 5.1).
The second problem is that altough the embedded card has Line Out, Rear Speaker Out and Center/Subwoofer Speaker Out jacks, the Ispire doesn't accept them all three cables as inputs (you may only choose between SPDIF, Coax, Optical and 4-Channel Line In).
Can someone please give me any suggestions? I'm really pissed of with the situation, but I believe the fix of the problem has to be something very simple.
Many thanx in advance,
George
Message Edited by papaki on 05-30-2005 10:08 AM

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