From: Drew on
Ok gotta love this!! I have discovered that along with this "problem" I have
found that using Itunes utilizes 4 of the 5.1 speakers (front left, right,
center and sub) however windows media center utilizes all of the 5.1 system.
Damn this is fun isn't it?

"Drew" <Aylen1957(a)invalid.nospam.net> wrote in message
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> Now that works on this sound card but not on my built in sound. weird I as
> know I used to be able to make it work.
>
> "Kue2" <Kue2(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> trying playing a movie & see if u have all five speakers working.
>>
>> "Drew" <Aylen1957(a)invalid.nospam.net> wrote in message
>> news:1264DCF9-56DA-4330-AE25-92015687E32B(a)microsoft.com...
>>> And now with a new sound card I still only have "front" speakers. I just
>>> installed a new sound card and went through configuration in playback
>>> devices, during which I had all 5 five speakers working. now when
>>> playing any music or any other media I only have the "front" 3 (left
>>> right center). I'm at a loss here.. what am I missing? I used to have
>>> all 5 playing during music playback in xp and even Vista with my built
>>> in sound card which is or was "Sigmatel High def audio".
>>>
>>> "Drew" <Aylen1957(a)invalid.nospam.net> wrote in message
>>> news:DEA43AD7-5A5C-4E1D-95F9-067CF08DDF4E(a)microsoft.com...
>>>> I have a question regarding sound on my win7 64 machine and I wanted to
>>>> ask
>>>> here first. I have a 5.1 surround system on my computer that when or
>>>> during
>>>> configuration I get the different tones through all 5 of my speakers,
>>>> however when playing music and or a dvd I only get the front 3 speakers
>>>> (left right and center as well as the sub). Now is this is probably a
>>>> driver problem but my motherboard
>>>> (Intel) D975XBX2 does not have windows 7 drivers for the onboard sound.
>>>> I used the built in drivers.
>>>> Any Ideas would as always be appreciated...
>>>