Problem with centre and rear speakers

Irf · 30 Jan 2006 at 23:31

Hi all,

I'm hoping you can help me with a problem that's drving me nuts.

After recently moving house, I finally got around to re-connecting my sound setup to my PC. I have The Creative Inspire 5.1 Digital 5700 amplifier/processor and speakers. I also have a Creative SB Live 24-bit in the PC.

The whole setup was working fine before the move. The digital out from the card was fed into the amp using mini-DIN. Now it won't work, apart from just the two front speakers (R/L). The centre and two satellites are dead. I have tested the cables and speakers - they are fine. It seems that either the card or the amp is not outputting the correct signal, but I'm not sure.

Have checked the Creative speaker settings, the ontrol panel settings, etc.

I wonder if something got damaged? Everything was sooo well wrapped and packed though!

Any help really appreciated!

Irf.

Irf · 2 Feb 2006 at 15:07

Sorted!!!

16 views and no replies...... I guess that this one was just too tricky!

Actually it's a bit embarrassing this one. As I said above, after installing everything back into place, I used the Creative Speaker Settings applet to try sending test tones to each speaker. No dice. Also tried from the control panel (I think). Still nothing.

Finally yesterday, I dug out the amplifier remote from another as-yet-unpacked-removal-box. I noticed that this remote also a speaker test tone button. Tried it..... it worked! Put a DVD into the PC (doh! for not trying that earlier) and I got glorious DD 5.1.

Seems the applet software doesn't work properly, and nor does the XP Control Panel side of things. I'm considering looking for updated drivers/software, but probably won't bother.... something else might get broken!

Thanks to all that looked...

Irf.