4 Speakers in XP need some help


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Hey I have 4 speakers and one woofer and i am using windows XP and a Sound Blaster Live. They are surround sound speakers but I cannot get all four speakers to work at the same time.

I have my speakers hooked up to my computer via two cables that insert into the back of my computer. When I have just one hooked up all four work, but not in surround sound. Only two channel audio.

I want all four speakers to work in surround sound mode.

I have tried going into Control Pannel>sound>advanced and changing my speakers from sterio to surround, but all that happends is they get quieter.

I have also changed them to live surround in the live speaker selection. please help

2 speakers infront

2 spakers on the side

1 woofer underneith (is this surround?)

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Hey

I just fixed my problem kinda. Well ok i was reading up on the net that live surround is for people who want to simulate surround sound on two speakers. So when setting up your surround sound you should set it to 4 speakers which gives you four point surround sound. The go into the windows setup and set it up as as as the surround sound that you want.

I just thought that people should know how to do this, it took some guess and test on my part adn (hmph) resgestering my product with Creative, to get the answers that I was looking for

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Originally posted by glix81

Hey

I just fixed my problem kinda. Well ok i was reading up on the net that live surround is for people who want to simulate surround sound on two speakers. So when setting up your surround sound you should set it to 4 speakers which gives you four point surround sound. The go into the windows setup and set it up as as as the surround sound that you want.

I just thought that people should know how to do this, it took some guess and test on my part adn (hmph) resgestering my product with Creative, to get the answers that I was looking for

already posted this fix a week or so back...search. ;)

https://www.neowin.net/bboard/showthread.ph...&threadid=36626

Mike

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Originally posted by iCe_2x? It should work rite away when u set it up in the control panel..

by any chance do you guys have altec lansing speakers ? b>

i have cambridge soundworks FPS1000

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Use the drivers and software from Creative, DO NOT USE THE DRIVERS FROM XP. The new XP Creative drivers came out this week, so go to http://www.sblive.com and get the drivers with the software. Then in the software you can set it to 2 speakers, 4 speakers or headphones.

Hope this helps, well it should because it worked for me.

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Originally posted by iCe_2x? My speakers have a switch on them that allows surround does yours ? b>

mmm....don't think so :ponder:

i'm not at home, so i can't check. but i don't think there is.

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You will need to install Creative's Surround Mixer (a part of LiveWare) for that...

(:p Oh, Keldyn... this looks like a juicy thread to move to Software Assistance... It looks as if the l33t mover overlooked this thread... LOL :p)

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Thanks Sunny. I would have moved it earlier but these server busy errors are driving me quite mad.

I have moved this thread to Drivers Drive In as the problem is driver specific.

Thanks.

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