Hi guys, this is really weird. I have 5.1 speakers and I've been through several installs of windows with this new computer because of this problem and that, but the audio has always been fine. Now that I've fixed everything else it seems the audio is acting up. Using their sound manager, I set it to 6CH and on the autotest, every speaker plays the chime fine except for the center which plays nothing. Really strange. The only thing I can think that I might have done different this time is install windows with the sound cables not hooked in until I installed the audio drivers. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling them with everything plugged in, and nothing (yes I'm using the latest drivers, and yes the speaker is fine I switched it with one of the other ones and the "new" center speaker didn't output a chime).

This is not my area of expertise, so I might be all wrong! But isn't a 5.1 system 2 front speaker, 2 rear speakers and a woofer? I didn't think it had a center speaker output. Sorry, I do not check for private messages

No, 5.1 has a center.

Are you using windows XP? AMD Athlon64 3500+ 1024MB 512x2 Dual Channel Corsair TwinX Coolermaster Wavemaster 120GB Seagate SATA HDD Gecube X800XT Platinum Logitch 5.1 Surround LG 16x Dual Layer DVD Countle

Yes I am. Sp2. Keep in mind, I had the central channel working last time I installed windows (which wasn't more then a week ago). Then I formatted when I got a new hard drive, and boom, no center.

Ok I found the problem... sound cable is kinda acting up... If I switch the sound cable that goes from the center to the sound card with say one on the right, then only one speaker will emit noise out of the two from left and right. Looks like I gotta dig around for another cable.