[silverslik1]

I recently formated my C Drive and put on Windows XP Proffesional, but now my (4 speakers, 1 Sub) speakers will not work when i hook them up to my computer. When i plug in headphones or any other set of speakers in the same jack, they work fine? I called the sound blaster company and they said to check my sound card to see if it is in properly, and i did and it seemed right and also the other speakers worked on it so that must mean something. The speakers are all ALTEC LANSING please help

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Nice speakers

Sounds like a driver issue with your sound card. Have you installed the latest WHQL drivers for your card from Creative's site?

http://us.creative.c...port/downloads/

[admin]

Nice speakers

Sounds like a driver issue with your sound card. Have you installed the latest WHQL drivers for your card from Creative's site?

http://us.creative.c...port/downloads/

[silverslik1]

It said after it scan my computer loooking if i needed updates, that i didnt need to install anything

[admin]

Are you talking about Windows Update? If so, try the creative link above, the drivers available may be more recent.

[silverslik1]

no i went on the creative site and it searched my computer for needed updates or any avalible driver updates and there were none avalible

[silverslik1]

accually i went back on the site and tried something else and there are some drivers it said i needed to install i guess so im gonna try that

[silverslik1]

nope, didnt work so im still using headphones wait for your answer

[admin]

Try going into device manager and uninstalling the driver. Then restart your computer and the hardware wizard should detect a new device and install it. This will reasign its resources.

If that doesn't work, check your BIOS. There should be a plug and play OS BIOS section. Try changing it to no.

[silverslik1]

after i get into my device manger i dn which of my options to uninstall, when i went into my sound audio and all that stuff option it didnt say anything about creative or sound blaster, also how would i get into my BIOS

[admin]

after i get into my device manger i dn which of my options to uninstall

Find your sound card in the device manager. Right click on the icon and select uninstall from the pop-up menu.

how would i get into my BIOS

Depends on your computer. While booting try tapping the F1, F2, F10, Del, or Ins keys. You may also see a a flash screen that tells you which key to press (if it flashes by too fast, press the pause key). If a full screen logo blocks the screen during boot, try pressing the Esc key.

[silverslik1]

i went into my device manager under the option of sound, video and game controllers

after i clicked down on the tab it gave me some options, which one do i uninstall, or am i in the wrong group totally

audio codecs
creative game ports
creative SB Live! value
legacy audio drivers
legacy video capture devices
media control devices
unimodem half-duplex audio device
video codecs

[admin]

audio codecs
creative game ports
creative SB Live! value
legacy audio drivers

[silverslik1]

then after i uninstall those, do i restart my computer and let the computer find a "new hardware" thing

[admin]

Yes, if no joy, try the BIOS settings.

[silverslik1]

aight well what i think im gonna do is create a restore point just incase this doesnt work so i dont lose any of those audio files if i need them and then try the BIOS thing, i really hope this works!