SoundBlaster Audigy SE speaker probl

I bought a Creative Soudblaster Audigy SE sound card last night because I was told that I needed a sound card that supported 5. speakers. I have 4 Dell speakers and a Dell subwoofer. Two of the speakers are connected directly to the subwoofer and the other two speakers are connected seperately. The two speakers and the sub was an upgrade but I liked the sound of my old Dell speakers so much that I kept them. After I bought the sound card I hooked the first set up of speakers to the green line out jack. Then I hooked the 2 speakers and the subwoofer up to the orange line out jack. I then tried my speakers and the 2 speakers that are connected to the green jack work but the 2 speakers with the sub don''t work. I then got a splitter and hooked it into the green out jack and hooked all the speakers into that jack, but only the 2 speakers continued to work the subwoofer and the other 2 speakers I continued to get no soundo out of them. I'm not sure what else to do.

so once again i got the 5 speakers working in windows playback devices but now when i play a dvd i get the quite voices again which always seems to happen once i get all 5 speakers working through cmss and the eax panel. when watching regular tv through windows media center i have no probems with sound because i believe that is just stereo not dolby. i read all about tweaking the settings from front to back and this had no effect just another problem that cant seem to be solved.

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