Caleb Posted February 18, 2005 Report Share Posted February 18, 2005 Recently purchased these from ebay And i can only get two of the speakers working at one time and not all 4 , the front are on a lead with a green connector and the rear on a black however i obnly have a green at the back of my pc and no black. Is there anyway around this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munkee Posted February 18, 2005 Report Share Posted February 18, 2005 is your sound card capable of 4 point surround sound? check it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTM Posted February 18, 2005 Report Share Posted February 18, 2005 Lol me thinks you should have checked whether you can run 4 point SS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted February 19, 2005 Report Share Posted February 19, 2005 Control Panel > Sounds & Audio Devices > Speaker Settings > Advanced > Make sure its on quadraphonic :- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caleb Posted February 19, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2005 Cheers for the help danny, iv tried switching it to quarophonic but still sure its not working also tried it on the normal surround sound and still only two on. NVIDIA N force sound card i believe. And its a fairly new decent pc so i should expect they would be compatible. But how do i check? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caleb Posted February 19, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2005 Please anyone else this is really bugging me now . Iv got this far and changed the setting to quadraphonic, tried turning my speakers off and restarting and still no luck :- Cant get the print screen up for some reason but it showed loads of different speaker types i could use e.g. surround sound 5.1 etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTM Posted February 19, 2005 Report Share Posted February 19, 2005 Whats the difference between 4 point surround sound and 5.1? I thought 5.1 was just 2 rear, 2 front and a centre speaker (ie. the sub) ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caleb Posted February 19, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2005 I think the 5.1s are the min compact speakers more for dvd etc, but also i didnt know whether to select quadraphonic or surround as there were 4 shown on quad and 4 on surround and a sub i think, and i have a sub so i tried both but still not a sausage :- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caleb Posted February 19, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2005 Just took out the rear lead wwhich is conncted to the front and now the quality is better and all speakers are on :- confused but it works so ill leave it i think Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTM Posted February 19, 2005 Report Share Posted February 19, 2005 Can you get us pics of the wiring etc? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caleb Posted February 19, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2005 (edited) yeah ill try :- Edited February 19, 2005 by Caleb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTM Posted February 19, 2005 Report Share Posted February 19, 2005 Im a little confused, im guessing on "surround sound" the same audio signal goes to all speakers (except sub) but it just immerses you in sound more? Unlike on a 5.1 system where each speaker has certain channels which it responds to and therefore each speaker will create a different soundstage giving depth and distance? Is that right? (tomm? lol) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted February 19, 2005 Report Share Posted February 19, 2005 Im a little confused, im guessing on "surround sound" the same audio signal goes to all speakers (except sub) but it just immerses you in sound more? Unlike on a 5.1 system where each speaker has certain channels which it responds to and therefore each speaker will create a different soundstage giving depth and distance? Is that right? (tomm? lol) ← Hehe :- Um, I'm not sure what the actual definition of surround sound/5.1 is, but what he is doing has a different channel for each speaker. 5.1 is left & right front, left & right rear, centre and sub. I think the .1 means a sub. So 5.1 is actually 6 speakers. Anyway, you don't have any input to the rear speakers. That's why it's not working. You need a cable from the back of the PC into the "Audio inputs - rear" socket. If there are no other sounds outputs on the PC (Unlikely I would have thought, unless it's a really cheap motherboard), then you need to go and buy a sound card. They're quite cheap for just a bog-standard 5.1 card. I have one you can have for £4 if you're interested. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTM Posted February 19, 2005 Report Share Posted February 19, 2005 Cos im bored, and just to be different, couldnt you do this: And before you say it Tomm, no you cant get 3.5mm jack to x2 3.5mm jack cables :closedeyes: That would only give the same signal from each speaker, but if what I put up there ^^^ is correct, thats all you would get if its done properly anyway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted February 19, 2005 Report Share Posted February 19, 2005 Why dont you have a wire going into the rear input on the back of the sub? You should have green and black going into the sub and the computer. No wonder you dont have all 4 working if you aint got anything plugged into the black rear socket :closedeyes: I had those exact speakers. If you have nforce audio you should have a control panel like the following to change your speaker setup.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caleb Posted February 19, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2005 (edited) Forgot to say i took the rear lead out just to test then all the speakers were working but 2 very quietly as a pose to two silent. i did have both leads in before im not that stupid lol. I do have 3 ports on my mother board? one green one pink and one blue the green works but i put the black lead into the blue port as it it looks like a speaker one and the pink one is for microphones , so kinda trial and error. Ill take some pictures of the back of my base unit if that helps. Sorry for not making the previous clear :"> Also i just have the usual windows audio properties window, will i need to download the drivers for thge speakers to get the n vidia one or should it already be on? Edited February 19, 2005 by Caleb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted February 19, 2005 Report Share Posted February 19, 2005 Forgot to say i took the rear lead out just to test then all the speakers were working but 2 very quietly as a pose to two silent. i did have both leads in before im not that stupid lol. I do have 3 ports on my mother board? one green one pink and one blue the green works but i put the black lead into the blue port as it it looks like a speaker one and the pink one is for microphones , so kinda trial and error. Ill take some pictures of the back of my base unit if that helps. Sorry for not making the previous clear :"> ← That sounds like speaker/mic/line in :closedeyes: Sounds like you need either an adaptor to put the f+r into one plug or a 4.1/5.1 soundcard :- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheChai Posted February 19, 2005 Report Share Posted February 19, 2005 i think u just need a new sound card :closedeyes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caleb Posted February 19, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2005 Ah kk so shall i try re installing the n vidia drivers or just get the adapter? Thanks for the help btw much appreciated :closedeyes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted February 19, 2005 Report Share Posted February 19, 2005 What motherboard is it? All nForce 2 mobos should have 5.1 :closedeyes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caleb Posted February 19, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2005 NVIDIA nFORCE2 motherboard i believe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted February 19, 2005 Report Share Posted February 19, 2005 Can you take a picture of your rear ports? or use http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php to tell you what motherboard you have :closedeyes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caleb Posted February 19, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2005 (edited) Ah found the booklet, its an asus a7n8x-x Sorry for the big pictures and bad quality i had to use flash as its in a very awkaward place with little lighting. and i dont know how to rescale sorry :"> :closedeyes: Edited February 19, 2005 by Caleb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted February 19, 2005 Report Share Posted February 19, 2005 Looked it up on the asus site and it states it has 6 channel audio yet the motherboard only has mic/linein/spr :closedeyes: Odd. Maybe it only supports 6 channel with the optional digital bracket :- EDIT: Found a review and it seams only the next model up has 6 channel. Your best bet is probably to buy that soundcard off tomm :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caleb Posted February 19, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2005 (edited) Yeah ill go for that sound card if it will work :closedeyes: Should it be hard to fit for a begginer, iv only fitted a soundcard before but that was piss. Thanks alot for the help everyone and especially danny for going totally out of his way for me :- Edited February 19, 2005 by Caleb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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