When I'm playing 5.1 games and movies I get no sounds in the rear speakers. I contacted Logitech and they sent me new speakers the Z-5500. I have them hooked up analog and with a monster coax cable. I hooked them up today and I'm getting sound out of all the speakers just not 5.1 or DTS when playing a movie. I did the creative speaker calibration and followed direction so I'm getting sound out of the rear , so the speakers are hooked up correctly and are working, but when I do the creative speaker settings and have checked 5.1 synchronize with control panel - digital output only - NOT ENABLED and then click "Channel" the front and center work but when she says "rear right" it comes out of the front right speaker and same with the left speaker - comes out the front. I don't understand what happened, I had the systems set up for a year to work with 5.1 games and digital coax movies. I also bought a new exact sound card, thinking it was the card. Creative has asked me to do the following and I did but not 5.1.
DID THIS AND NO LUCK Try the following procedure:
Go to Control Panel > Add / Remove Programs and uninstall the software for the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS card. If it shows a screen to reboot choose NO.
Try running CTZAPXX from the installation CD for the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS sound card.
Choose the Uninstall option and uninstall the WDM drivers for the Audigy 2 ZS sound card.
Then reboot, and re-run the CTZAPPXX from the installation CD for the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS sound card. This time choose the install option.
Then reinstall the software from the installation CD.
The CTZAPPXX program should be in the Audio\Drivers folder on the installation CD.
DID THIS AND NOT LUCK TOO... Creative Sound Blaster Audigy, Audigy 2 series and Audigy 4 series Driver 02.08.0004 (34.26 MB) Filename: SBAX_WEBUP_LB_2_08_0004.exe
If the issue is not resolve, you may also wish to check if there is any resource conflicts with the devices installed on your system.
CHECKING AND CHANGING THE IRQ OF YOUR CARD 1. Go to Start > Control Panel > System > Hardware 2. Click on the Device Manager button to open up Device Manager 3. Go to View > Resources by type 4. Open up the IRQ section 5. Find the main listing for the card 6. Check to see what IRQ the card is listed on. 7. Check to see what other devices are listed on the same IRQ 8. Shut down windows 9. Power off computer 10. Switch the slot of your card 11. Boot the system, and reinstall the drivers for the card. 12. Repeat steps 1 - 5 to check the current IRQ for the card. 13. Note the IRQ listed now. Has it changed? 14. Check to see what other devices are listed on the same IRQ 15. If the IRQ has not changed, or it is sharing with another device, we may need to switch slots again. It also might be necessary to reserve or assign resources in your motherboard BIOS.