Help with sound/speakers problem

[ChrisN]

I finished building my new PC yesterday and things are going OK.

I'm having a major problem with my video card (getting the "display driver stopped responding" error), but I think it's the card because it was giving me problems in my old computer.

Anyway, my question concerns my sound card and speakers.

I have a PCI Express Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatl1ty, I'm running Windows 7 64-bit and I have an older 4.1 speaker system.

I get sound & music out of my front speakers, but not out of my rear speakers.

When I go into the Creative Console and check for speakers, it's set at 4/4.1 and when I test I get sound out of ALL the speakers (included the rear ones).

When I right-click on the speaker icon in my system tray and then click on "playback devices" I find the Creative SB X-Fi is selected. When I click "configure" it ALSO has the speakers set up properly (quadraphonic) and when I test them I get sound out of all speakers.

However, when I go to play music (I use AIMP2, but it also happens with WMP), I only get sound out of the front speakers.

I've updated the drivers and actually got the rear speakers working (used Windows Update and updated the SB drivers), but then my video card gave me a BSOD and when I rebooted the rear speakers were again not working.

I recall having a similar situation with my other SB X-Fi card on my Windows XP machine and it turned out that I had to set some fairly hidden Windows speaker setting to surround speakers.

I simply can't find it this time.

Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

[ChrisN]

Never mind.

I updated the Creative Console, rebooted and got my rear speakers back.