[downhill]

Ok, this thread either means something or nothing to you.
The Creative gigaworks 7.1 is a very expensive old skool speaker system that has a tendency to die a early death because the amp is housed in the kickass sub.
It's an extremely frustrating problem as the 7 awesome speakers are intact, as is the Subwoofer; It just wont TURN ON.
The sub unit (in most cases) is very hard to fix, and if it's not under warranty (12 mths, Yay) creative will charge you for a whole new unit, which they wont have cuz the stopped making them.
My Sub is no exception, It died over a year ago, and a few times since. But I am poor, so here is a Fix..

OK, this fix is simple enough to do, and if your reading this you were probably attached to it, like me, but it will take some steps..
By no means is this a permanent fix.
It is a very similar to the old 360 ring of death fix heat up fix, and similar to that fix, the unit can get harder to ressurect each time, and should obviously not be attempted unless the warranty is up and you have little to lose.
but..if your dedicated, it can always be done.

-Take your broken (no green light) s750 subwoofer.
- Attach a power cable that you wont have to disconnect for as long as you want them working and connect it.
- Attach the power module as you will need it soon enough. Turn the power switch on the sub to "ON"
- Now the basic premise here is to get the unit HOT.
- When mine dies. I place it on top of a towel on a space heater, changing sides every 15 mins. If you feel this is a bit much; Just take a Fan heater and blow it at the rear of the unit or the port hole.

*PLEASE BE CAREFUL AS THE SUB NEEDS TO BE CONNECTED TO POWER WHILST IT IS HEATED.

- In theory You only need to get it as HoT as it would get through normal operation, but these things CooK during "normal " operation so dont be too gentle.
- Anyway...The green light should start blinking in abut 30 mins.
- Once the Green light is back and blinking; take the 'already' connected power module and place it on or near the sub.
It seems to help if it gets hot aswell, but it is plastic unlike the sub so dont go nutz. Just have it close to the Sub once the green light is back.

- OK that was the easy part.
*The "red" standby light (whilst trusty) is stubborn and can take up to 2 hours to come back on.
And remember all this time the sub needs to being Heated (as described above).
- So 30 mins, maybe 120 mins from your green power light, you should have a red light. on the power module and a solid green on the sub.
At this point you can lose the Heat as it will make it's own

*Take care not to disconnect the revived unit or you will have to start over.Leave it on Standby 24/7 (as you would anyway).
-Finally Reconnect the speaker wires and pc connectors while the standby light is on, Press the magic red power button and your back in Business!

*If you like technical stuff, you just heated up the mainboard enough to make glue conductive and engage secondary power supply switch. The unit should function as normal.

Sorry I had no camera to do a youtube video. I hope my english is ok.

[XxDeadlyxX]

Thankyou SO much for this information - my S750 sub started doing the green flashing light problem not long ago and I thought it was stuffed for good (I've had a couple S750 subs do this before), I have been looking everywhere to find out any possible fix and just found this thread - just tried this suggestion of blowing a fan heater on the back while the green flashing light is on and after about 30 minutes the green flashing changed to a full solid green and it works 100% again now

downhill you are the man!! The S750 is indeed an incredible system and I am so glad this worked

[downhill]

happy to help
No doubt the neighbors will be you got it working again

[Elwhettohefe]

It Worked!!!!!....After a recent power outage it refused to work, I took it apart thinking an obvious problem would be apparent, but it was not. For some reason I was lucky enough that it just worked after reassembly. Then today it happened again, flashing green light. Followed the recommendation above with a space heater blowing air into the port for about 30 minutes & viola... like a charm.... all good again. Bizarre but for these speakers I would try about anything. You Rule Downhill Thanks......

[Aussie_Ash]

Downhill... You are a legend, it worked within 10 minutes for me, i now have my kick ass speakers working again.