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5.1 surround sound in XP
Name: Dave Date: September 10, 2001 at 16:22:06 Pacific
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I am having trouble getting my cambridge sound works / creative 5.1 surround sound speakers to work with Win XP Pro. I have sound on the 2 front speakers but no sound on the rest. I am using a soundblaster Live! sound card. I have my speakers settings set to "5.1 surround sound" in the control panel.. any suggestions?? Thanks!
Name: Eric Date: September 10, 2001 at 20:42:13 Pacific
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I have the same setup as you and am experiencing the exact same problem. What actually controls this? Is it the drivers that are causing the problem? Does anyone have any ideas?
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Response Number 2
Name: [DW]Kristus Date: September 11, 2001 at 06:16:38 Pacific
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I have a similar problem. I get all speakers to work when i use mediaplayer but in games and with winamp only 2 speakers work.
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Response Number 3
Name: The D Date: September 11, 2001 at 12:52:49 Pacific
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For winamp, go to the settings then pick the Directsound output plugin and you should now get sound out of all speakers.
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Response Number 4
Name: [DW]Kristus Date: September 11, 2001 at 17:13:15 Pacific
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Thank you, winamp works now :)
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Response Number 5
Name: mattt76 Date: September 13, 2001 at 18:46:57 Pacific
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I have the jazz dolby elan 5.1 surround sound but lol the damn things dont work i only get two speakers working and no drivers are avail for the win xp pro has anyone got around this problem?
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Response Number 6
Name: OTREV Date: September 14, 2001 at 00:27:04 Pacific
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If you right click on the speaker on the taskbar then click on properties go to advanced in the speaker settings box it will give you a option on which speakers to use
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Response Number 7
Name: Wade Date: September 15, 2001 at 03:04:44 Pacific
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If you have liveware, find the reg files that setup speakers (Audio\Common\Cfgset\Speaker\Value) if you get them from the windows temp folder. and run the 4 speaker reg file. Unfortunately this is only a temp fix because after restart it'll only work with the 2 front speakers again. I have set my computer to run regedit /s "regfile.reg" at startup to always make sure the 4 speakers are enabled.
The weird thing is this only happened after my recent installation of windows xp; last time I installed Windows xp it worked fine!
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Response Number 8
Name: Iceman Date: November 4, 2001 at 13:04:49 Pacific
Summary: Speakers are Creative Inspire 5300 5.1 surround, running an Athlon 2100XP processor with 512mb ram. Have ran diagnostic and speakers test ok which seems to suggest that the problem may lie somewhere b...
Summary: I have a problem, im running XP pro with a A7N 266-E (the nforce with built in sound).. the sound card is dolby digital 5.1, and i have creative labs 5300 5.1 surround sound... only the left and rigth...
Summary: I bought a Sound Blaster Live 5.1 and put it in and installed it, everything worked fine, I set it to 5.1 surround sound. When i plug my surround sound(Creative forget what model)into it though it onl...
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