Re: Novice user/Sound Card Troubles

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4 Plugs usually mean at least a 4.1 system.

USUALLY... it's Front, Rear, Microphone, Digital Out OR Center/subwoofer.

I can tell you that if the plugs are colour coded, usually it's: front (left
& Right) should be green, the rear one's black, center/subwooter is usually
orange, Microphone is pink, digital out is blue.

If you bought a logitech Surround sound, you should have Green, Black and
Orange. If you have matching colours on your sound card, plug them in! Also
(MOST) logitechs have a switch on the back that determine whether it sends a
2.1, 4.1 or 5.1 signal to the speakers. Make sure you do the select the
correct configuration. The only thing else that I can think of is going into
the Audio settings in windows (Control panel > Sounds, Speech & Audio
Devices >Sounds & Audio Devices > Speaker Settings) and making sure Windows
knows what type of signal to send to your sound card.

That's about as much I can tell you without knowing what type of soundcard
you have or which logitech's you bought.

For reference, i have a Creative SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 hooked up to a set
of Logitech Z-5300 5.1 THX speakers.

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Regards,

Lawrence Wong
"Malke" <notreally@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> McCloed9 wrote:
>
>> Greetings,hopefully someone can help me.But I'm affraid it is in vain
>> :(. I purchased a Logitech Surround System with HOPES my movies and
>> Music would sound BETTER.Thing is I'm affraid my Dells sound cards are
>> NOT up to par.I have 4 plug ins in back,but can only get the Subwoofer
>> and 2 fronts to work....Did I make a bad purchase? Or can I get an
>> upgrade download somewhere???
>
> We can't really answer you without knowing what sound card you have.
> Look in Device Manager (System applet in Control Panel) and see what
> the sound hardware is, or look on the paperwork that came with the
> system. Post back with that information for more help.
>
> Malke
> --
> MS-MVP Windows User/Shell
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic"


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