No sound from rear or center of Inspire 5300 speakers

I have an Audigy 2 Platinum card and an Inspire 5300 speaker system. All was well until a few days when sound only came from the two front speakers. The creative speaker settings tool no longer shows any speaker settings to choose from. Windows allows me to choose 5.1 setting, but of course it doesn't work. I re-installed the latest drivers and media go! software but problem persisits. I ran the diagnostic tool and I received the following error: "NTWriteWordConfig-CONFIG_READWORD". Could this be the cause of my problem, and if so, how can I fix it's Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

i have a similar problem
in my case the problem is with the front c/sub,i have no output on the sub.
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Sorry I misunderstood, central (center) speaker is the one sit at the middle, we normally call Left, Right and Center speakers. Anyway, what is your speaker icon (bottom right corner) says ? Does it look like this ?
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