sound setup problem

[o-chan]

Hi, I have an Abit NF7-S motherboard and am using the built-in audio
ports. I am trying to hook up a Logitech Z-640 speaker set, a 5.1 system.

Accoring to the Abit manual:
green = front left/right
orange = rear left/right
black = center/sub

The Logitech setup guide however doesn't get specific. They just say
"hook up the green/orange/black plugs to your sound card's corresponding
inputs". Okay, sounds easy, right? The problem is that when I do this
I get no sound from my rear speakers.

I should mention that I have checked the audio preferences in Windows
and selected a 6-speaker setup. I've also moved the individual speakers
around and connected them to different ports on the subwoofer, so I know
all the speakers are operational. I also know all the sound ports on
the motherboard work because I've moved the plugs to different inputs
and am able to get at least some sound. But I just can't get everything
right.

I was wondering how best to troubleshoot this. Are there any utility
programs that can send sound to individual speakers so you can see that
selecting "rear right" sends a sound to the rear right speaker for
example? Thanks.

 

[C R Briggs]

Hi, I have an Abit NF7-S motherboard and am using the built-in audio
ports. I am trying to hook up a Logitech Z-640 speaker set, a 5.1 system.

Accoring to the Abit manual:
green = front left/right
orange = rear left/right
black = center/sub

The Logitech setup guide however doesn't get specific. They just say
"hook up the green/orange/black plugs to your sound card's corresponding
inputs". Okay, sounds easy, right? The problem is that when I do this I
get no sound from my rear speakers.

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I was wondering how best to troubleshoot this. Are there any utility
programs that can send sound to individual speakers so you can see that
selecting "rear right" sends a sound to the rear right speaker for
example? Thanks.

The following assumes that the sound is provided by an AC97 Sound Chip.

Have you used the "AC97 Audio Configuration" > "Speaker Configuration" to
set the jack sockets from "Line In" & "Mic In" to "Rear Speaker Out" &
"Centre/Subwoofer Speaker Out" ?

 

[o-chan]

The following assumes that the sound is provided by an AC97 Sound Chip.

Have you used the "AC97 Audio Configuration" > "Speaker Configuration" to
set the jack sockets from "Line In" & "Mic In" to "Rear Speaker Out" &
"Centre/Subwoofer Speaker Out" ?

There is an option for using the line in and mic in for rear and center
speakers, but I do not have that checked.

 

[JAD]

are those not the outputs? please check as needed

 

[bejay]

Hi, I have an Abit NF7-S motherboard and am using the built-in audio
ports. I am trying to hook up a Logitech Z-640 speaker set, a 5.1 system.

Accoring to the Abit manual:
green = front left/right
orange = rear left/right
black = center/sub

The Logitech setup guide however doesn't get specific. They just say
"hook up the green/orange/black plugs to your sound card's corresponding
inputs". Okay, sounds easy, right? The problem is that when I do this
I get no sound from my rear speakers.

I should mention that I have checked the audio preferences in Windows
and selected a 6-speaker setup. I've also moved the individual speakers
around and connected them to different ports on the subwoofer, so I know
all the speakers are operational. I also know all the sound ports on
the motherboard work because I've moved the plugs to different inputs
and am able to get at least some sound. But I just can't get everything
right.

I was wondering how best to troubleshoot this. Are there any utility
programs that can send sound to individual speakers so you can see that
selecting "rear right" sends a sound to the rear right speaker for
example? Thanks.

I used the NVIDIA NVMixer application which was part of their latest
driver upgrade package to set up my 5.1 speakers using the on-board
audio chip on my Abit NF7. This utility lets you individually control
speaker volume and add various equaliser/surround sound effects. You
may even have it somewhere in an NVIDIA folder. Look for NvMixer.exe
or NvMixer tray.exe

bejay

 

[o-chan]

I used the NVIDIA NVMixer application which was part of their latest

driver upgrade package to set up my 5.1 speakers using the on-board
audio chip on my Abit NF7. This utility lets you individually control
speaker volume and add various equaliser/surround sound effects. You
may even have it somewhere in an NVIDIA folder. Look for NvMixer.exe
or NvMixer tray.exe

bejay

Thanks, that worked GREAT. It was strange I had the installer on my C
drive and it was called "audio setup" in the nvidia/audio/utls folder,
but for some reason it was never installed. Not only did I get it set
up properly but I was able to make it automatically send front L/R to
the rear L/R when only playing a 2.0 audio source. Thanks again.