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Creative SoundBlaster Audigy Player
Creative Inspire 5300 5.1
Yesterday I installed my new Creative Inspire 5300 5.1 Surround Sound speakers which I bought. My friend, who has the same speakers, helped me connect all the wires and position sattelite speakers, etc.
I also bought a Creative SoundBlaster Audigy Player Sound Card OEM to match with the speakers.
First, I installed my sound card into a free PCI slot, and ran the driver and software installation CD for the sound card. The drivers and stuff installed with no errors. I then turned off the computer and connected the speakers to the sound card, and turned my computer back on. I thought that the installation of the speakers was successful because I heard the windows startup music.
My friend just wanted to check if all the speakers were working correctly, so he right-clicked the 'Creative Taskbar' on the taskbar, and clicked on 'Surround Mixer'. The Surround Mixer menu appeared, and he clicked on 'Speakers'. '4 Speakers' was selected at the time, but he changed it to '5.1 Speakers'. Then he clicked on 'Test' to test the speakers, and he said that it should call out the names of the speakers which are working properly.
It said 'Front left', missed out the center speaker, 'Front right', and missed out the rear speakers. This indicates that there is something wrong with the speakers or something. We looked at the sub-woofer connections and the connections to the sound card, and we noticed that everything was connected properly.
He then went to Start > Programs > Creative > Creative Sound Blaster Audigy > Creative Diagnostics 2. this checked if all the programs are working properly. All had a green tick next to them, except for SoundFont Settings and Surround Mixer Check, which had red X's next to them. We clicked on 'Begin Fix' but an error appeared which said 'Some files required by Creative Diagnostics 2 are missing or having problems. Please reinstall the software from your installation media.' We uninstalled all the software and reinstalled them, but it didnt fix the problem.
I went to the Creative SoundBlaster website and downloaded the latest drivers for my soundcard, but when I tried running the driver program, an error message came up saying that it couldn't detect a SoundBlaster Audigy Player sound card, and automatically exited.
My friend, who bought the same sound card and speakers a month or so before me, offered me to use his Installation CD. I tried running it, and then an error said that it could not detect a SoundBlaster Audigy Player sound card.
Oh, and one more thing. I know that all the satellite speakers are connected because when I switch on the power switch for the speakers, I hear a sound from all speakers.... so I don't think this is a hardware-related problem.
I'm very frustrated and want to fix this problem. I'm not much of expert, so all your help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
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Creative Inspire 5.1 5300 Manual
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