how to i get my headphones to work with my sb live! card? i plugged in the same port as i did the speakers (i took the speaker cord out), and all i got was some static and i could hear the song in the background very quietly, and the volume of the song itself didn't change no matter how i changed the volume on the computer.

the rest of the ports just gave me silence, nothing at all. i have digital sound, boston acoustics speakers and a sub, and they sound great when played through them. i played around with some options, turned on and off "play only digital sound" and checked all the volumes, still didn't work.

so i've tried ALL the ports, checked all the volumes everywhere, and i still only get mostly static with a faint sound of the song on side of the headphones. i also tried several pairs to make sure it wasn't the headphones that were defective. hell, i even turned off the subwoofer completely and the same thing happened. i was unware it would even work at all without the sub on. I'm running Win2k. THANK you for any suggestions.

my system specs:

MSI KT3V Motherboard
AMD Athlon XP 2600+ CPU
512MB Corsair DDR PC2700 RAM (1 stick)
Radeon 7000 graphics card
Soundblaster Live! sound card
HP CD-RW 9100 series
Lite-on CD-ROM 52x
10GB Western Digital HDD 5200 RPM (master) (FAT32)
20GB Western Digital HDD 7200 RPM (slave) (FAT32)
500W power supply

I would change the "resources" in the sound card properties, in the Device Manager.

I would also try the headphones in the CD-Rom. Place a music disk in the CD-Rom and plug into the jack on the front of the CD Player.

Try moving the sound card to a different slot on the motherboard.

Maybe I'm being overly simple but it sounds to me like you only have line level outputs on your sound card. Your speaker system is obviously powered since you said you had a subwoofer and several other speakers. And when you turn the amp (sub) off then it sounds the same as when you tried the headphones, correct? Also, just curious what this has to do with Windows 2000?

Use either your creative hq or your advanced volume settings and turn off digital sound. This should fix the problem.

Most headphones are analog not digital.

Umm... I do believe all speakers are analog. The 'digital' part only refers to the signal processing. There's always a D/A converter before the speakers. Why are we discussing audio on the Windows 2000 board?!