Rocky 1,224 Posted June 30, 2006 Share Posted June 30, 2006 I've just noticed I am not getting sound through my rear speakers, and the creative software that I used to use to check speaker functionality is nowhere to be found I used to fire up a tool that displayed a picture of a 5.1 surround setup, then you could tell it to cycle through the speakers one at a time and a ladys voice would say "Front Right, Front Left, Centre..." etc. Where can I get that tool again as I cannot locate it Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cpl Ledanek 247 Posted June 30, 2006 Share Posted June 30, 2006 if you got the speakerwires underneath or near by your feet, there's the good chance you knocked it off. Check your wires and see if they are still plugged in correctly to your PC. God knows how many times I done this, to any speakers. If its not the bass speakers I've kicked before, its often the center speakers. If the speakers are seated properly: 1) Go to Control Panel\Sound & Audio\Speaker settings\ - see if you may have reset to 2 desktop speakers, change it back to 5.1\6.1 Good luck Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rocky 1,224 Posted June 30, 2006 Author Share Posted June 30, 2006 if you got the speakerwires underneath or near by your feet, there's the good chance you knocked it off. Check your wires and see if they are still plugged in correctly to your PC. God knows how many times I done this, to any speakers. If its not the bass speakers I've kicked before, its often the center speakers. If the speakers are seated properly: 1) Go to Control Panel\Sound & Audio\Speaker settings\ - see if you may have reset to 2 desktop speakers, change it back to 5.1\6.1 Good luck Yeh I checked all that because I recently moved everything - but cables and windows settings are correct. If I could only find that creative dialog I am sure it would help, how frustrating! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CrowmanUK 0 Posted June 30, 2006 Share Posted June 30, 2006 If you go to the europe creative site its there mate, go to support and put all your cards details in, you'll then go to the downloads The top download is this 1. Creative Sound Blaster Audigy, Audigy 2 series and Audigy 4 series Driver 02.08.0004 (34.26 MB) and in it is the creative console which is the program you're after, if you've got it installed though it'll be under start/all programs/creative/your card?/creative console launcher, if its not showing up make sure that you havent got it hidden in the taskbar and start menu properties Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rocky 1,224 Posted June 30, 2006 Author Share Posted June 30, 2006 If you go to the europe creative site its there mate, go to support and put all your cards details in, you'll then go to the downloads The top download is this 1. Creative Sound Blaster Audigy, Audigy 2 series and Audigy 4 series Driver 02.08.0004 (34.26 MB) and in it is the creative console which is the program you're after, if you've got it installed though it'll be under start/all programs/creative/your card?/creative console launcher, if its not showing up make sure that you havent got it hidden in the taskbar and start menu properties I have the creative audio console installed, but when I call it up, it's not the same as what I am thinking off. This one is a crappy looking thing with 9 tabs, the thing I am thinking about had a nicer GUI and a graphical display of the 5 speakers placed around a PC... I really don't know what has happened here lol. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WhiteKnight77 1 Posted June 30, 2006 Share Posted June 30, 2006 Which card do you have Rocky, I will check to see which disk to transfer the files from to you. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CR6 0 Posted June 30, 2006 Share Posted June 30, 2006 I think I know the one you are talking about. It's something like "Creative Diagnostics" and you have to pick it from your Start Menu. The only way I got it to work was a reinstall from the original CD that came with the sound card I wish Windows had a built in diagnostic for this Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rocky 1,224 Posted July 1, 2006 Author Share Posted July 1, 2006 I'm gonna reboot on my old HD and see if it is still there........ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dannik 43 Posted July 1, 2006 Share Posted July 1, 2006 Creative Surround Mixer. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rocky 1,224 Posted July 1, 2006 Author Share Posted July 1, 2006 Nope, you are all wrong - Creative Speaker Setup, which is found in the Creative Folder in start All Programs, and then select Audigy 2 folder. Difficulty is, that where it is on my old HD, but my current boot dive does not have the Audigy folder, it has a Creative one, but it only contains the Creative Console. Great idea still having that boot system on the old HD. It let me find that program, and running it confirmed I have somehow managed to totally screw up which plug goes where with this speakers LOL! So now I have to figure out where to get the Audigy 2 software that I am missing, because I installed the latest drivers from Creative and they did not come bundled with that... and I do not have the Audigy CD... And so it continues... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rocky 1,224 Posted July 1, 2006 Author Share Posted July 1, 2006 http://hosted.filefront.com/BadBoyforum Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WhiteKnight77 1 Posted July 1, 2006 Share Posted July 1, 2006 That solves your problem. Now, what happened to your original disk? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rocky 1,224 Posted July 1, 2006 Author Share Posted July 1, 2006 That solves your problem. Now, what happened to your original disk? I bought the card off Zebb, but it never came with a disk. I keep all my Application disks together in the same box for easy finding Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WhiteKnight77 1 Posted July 1, 2006 Share Posted July 1, 2006 I just looked at my audio folder and it is called Creative too. In that there is an Audigy 2 ZS folder that has the Creative Speaker Settings program. I don't even have a Creative Console. That must have been with my old sound card. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rocky 1,224 Posted July 1, 2006 Author Share Posted July 1, 2006 I just looked at my audio folder and it is called Creative too. In that there is an Audigy 2 ZS folder that has the Creative Speaker Settings program. I don't even have a Creative Console. That must have been with my old sound card. Yeh that is the folder I was missing for some reason. Got it from the filefront site though. Now I need to remember to burn that data to a disk and file it away safetly. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WhiteKnight77 1 Posted July 1, 2006 Share Posted July 1, 2006 I just looked at my audio folder and it is called Creative too. In that there is an Audigy 2 ZS folder that has the Creative Speaker Settings program. I don't even have a Creative Console. That must have been with my old sound card. Yeh that is the folder I was missing for some reason. Got it from the filefront site though. Now I need to remember to burn that data to a disk and file it away safetly. Again, I ask what happened to your original disk? Did you toss it in the garbage by chance??? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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