New speakers problem.

just Scott · 30 May 2007 at 13:36

I just got some Creative Inspire T6100 speakers, but I'm having problems getting all of the speakers to play sound. I set the speaker config in windows "Sound and Audio Devices" to 5.1 Speakers (also tried just "Surround Sound" but didn't have an affect) and I changed the config to 6CH speaker in the Realtek HD Audio Manager.

The proble mis, the rear left speaker won't make a sound. When I click it to test, it doesn't make a noise. All the others making the correct sound. It isn't the speaker that is faulty because I switched the rear left speaker for the rear right speaker, and it was the same. The one that didn't work in the rear left position was now working fine in rear right position.

Any ideas?

The onboard sound is the one that comes with a Gigabyte S3, and I will be getting a new sound card tommorrow or friday so that might make a different but who knows.

Thanks.

just Scott · 30 May 2007 at 22:19

Any ideas anyone?

My guess is that the sound card isn't picking up the 6th channel. Does that sound plausible? Or is it something else...

Xon · 31 May 2007 at 01:44

H2F Scott said:
Any ideas anyone?

My guess is that the sound card isn't picking up the 6th channel. Does that sound plausible? Or is it something else...

Sounds more like a faulty output to that particular speaker from the subwoofer if the other surround speaker plays fine

just Scott · 31 May 2007 at 02:08

Valkyr said:
Sounds more like a faulty output to that particular speaker from the subwoofer if the other surround speaker plays fine

Yeah maybe. I'll wait until I get my new sound card, if it doesn't help I'll return the speakers and hopefully the next set will be fine.

fish99 · 31 May 2007 at 10:32

H2F Scott said:
and I changed the config to 6CH speaker in the Realtek HD Audio Manager.

Are there any other settings in there you could try? I know 6 channels is technically correct, but the people who wrote that software could be thinking 6 channels = 6 speakers, so maybe you need to select 5 channels. A lot of PC speakers don't use the subwoofer signal and take the bass from the left/right channels.

just Scott · 31 May 2007 at 13:32

fish99 said:
Are there any other settings in there you could try? I know 6 channels is technically correct, but the people who wrote that software could be thinking 6 channels = 6 speakers, so maybe you need to select 5 channels. A lot of PC speakers don't use the subwoofer signal and take the bass from the left/right channels.

I tried 4CH but it didn't really do anything. There's only a choice of headphones, 2CH, 4CH, 6CH or 8CH. None of them work.

fish99 · 31 May 2007 at 14:37

Ok, it was worth a shot

Sounds like busted speakers sadly. You could swap round the lead for front and rear and that should tell you whether the problem is soundcard or speakers. In other words swap green and black leads, and you'd then expect front left to not make a sound if the soundcard is the problem. If rear left still doesn't work, that would suggest something wrong inside the sub.

just Scott · 31 May 2007 at 17:03

fish99 said:
Ok, it was worth a shot

Sounds like busted speakers sadly. You could swap round the lead for front and rear and that should tell you whether the problem is soundcard or speakers. In other words swap green and black leads, and you'd then expect front left to not make a sound if the soundcard is the problem. If rear left still doesn't work, that would suggest something wrong inside the sub.

Hmm I just swapped the green and black leads around and the rear left still isn't playing. Front left stays the same, rear right goes to the front right poitions and front right goes to the rear right position. Still no sound from rear left.