5.1 surround sound

[Wayniac]

I have 5.1 surround sound speakers, but every time I go to set that in my sound settings, it ends up putting it back to just 2 speakers.

I click on advanced and select the speakers that I have, but after a restart or after a while, it puts it back to just 2 speakers. Is there some other setting I need to check?

 

[Him]

Are you talking about the volume control in Windows, or the volume control for your card?

 

[Wayniac]

No... I mean, if I go to

Start -> Control Panel -> Sounds, Speech, and Audio Devices -> Sounds and Audio Devices

From here, I click on advanced under "Speaker Settings." Under the speaker tab it asks you to select what kind looks like your setup. I always pick the 5.1 (because I have 5.1 surround sound) but later sometime it switches it back to just two speakers.

 

[003]

I have that exact problem. Please help me.

 

[contry]

did ur soundcard come with somekind of software?, i had that problem too, i changed it to 5.1 in audio devices and the problem wasnt fixed, so i looked at the settings in my realtek card and just changed it there to 5.1 and everything was fixed

 

[HAVOC]

Do your 5.1 surround speakers connect to your sound card by 3 phone plugs or just 1?

 

[003]

Do your 5.1 surround speakers connect to your sound card by 3 phone plugs or just 1?

3 plugs.

 

[Wayniac]

3 plugs for me too.

 

[Wayniac]

did ur soundcard come with somekind of software?, i had that problem too, i changed it to 5.1 in audio devices and the problem wasnt fixed, so i looked at the settings in my realtek card and just changed it there to 5.1 and everything was fixed

Where are these settings you speak of? Which settings?

 

[Him]

I've had the same problem, for some reason it never wants to stick within Windows. I think Windows has to detect all the plugs are connected in, I'm not sure though. This is a fishy problem, I believe that you may have to configure them totally with the software that came with the sounbd controller.