Comments on: 5.1 SURROUND SETUP W/VISTA

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:49:17 +0000

I have a 2.1 stereo system which plugs into the green L+R jack on the pc. I have recently acquired a new center speaker. The center speaker connects to the sub via +ve & -ve wires (as do the L & R) and then there is a connection for the center going from the sub to the orange center on the pc. I have connected everything but the center produces no sound – the windows vista speaker set up only has stero, quadraphonic, 5.1 and 7.1 surround sound set ups – how can I get a 3.1 set up to work, there muts be a way!

The speaker system is the Aego M series by acoustic energy!

By: Ingvar

Ingvar — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:49:33 +0000

Came accross this message:

On Window Vista, Microsoft removed the ‘Hardware Abstraction Layer’ which
means that DirectSound3D can no longer be hardware accelerated by a
soundcard. This means that the OpenAL device ‘Generic Hardware’ which uses
DirectSound3D Hardware Buffers no longer functions on Vista.

This means that if you don’t have a soundcard with a ‘native’ AL Device
then you won’t get multi-speaker output on Windows Vista

By: Ingvar

Ingvar — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:28:27 +0000

I successfully go through all these steps and find wma or wmv files working fine, yet other sound samples (like wav files with 5-6 channels) don’t work on the rear speakers.

By: Romel

Romel — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 06:38:50 +0000

on step 7, all i can find is stereo
there’s nothing else there.
it was there before.
how do i get it back?

By: aclivin

aclivin — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:15:35 +0000

First off, check your control box for the speakers. They are Logitech and in my experiences they provide a virtual surround that if active doesn’t allow proper sound if your settings are set for 5.1 on your pc.
Second your Sound Blaster settings may need to be changed if your computers default sound source is set to be handled by your Sound Blaster which it should be.
You can also try reinstalling the sound cards drivers

By: Dustin

Dustin — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:14:51 +0000

I’m stuck at step 7. I have the Logitech Z-5500 5.1 surround speakers and a Sound Blaster Audigy 24-bit 5.1 surround sound card. The speaker set has a test button which allows you to test each speaker if they are connected correctly and they are.. but when I do the test from the one mentioned in step 7, I only hear the Left and Right speakers. There’s no sound coming from the rest. What’s the problem here? Thanks.

By: EZ Helper

EZ Helper — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:19:55 +0000

Try reinstalling the the soundcard drivers.