Hello to everyone within this site.
I recently bought a Philips HTD3540/98 home theater unit that I planned to hook up to my PC using SPDIF. But since my PC had no onboard SPDIF (my motherboard is a Gigabyte B75M-D3V), I bought a sound card as well, a Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio PCIe. However, after installing everything and updated the latest drivers, I found out that it only played back 2.0 sounds through the speakers, in that the front and rear pairs played the same audio, while the woofer doesn't play at all when I used a 5.1 test file (supposedly) that I got from a youtube link. However, when playing a regular 2 channel video, sound came from the woofer.
A solution that I found that I don't want to use if possible is to use the receiver's aux in port together with the onboard Realtek audio and set it so that it uses 5.1 speakers within the Realtek audio setting. However, a test of each speakers also showed that the woofer does not produce any sound, when it does on the optical audio.
Anyone with this same problem or knows the issue? Thanks in advance!
I recently bought a Philips HTD3540/98 home theater unit that I planned to hook up to my PC using SPDIF. But since my PC had no onboard SPDIF (my motherboard is a Gigabyte B75M-D3V), I bought a sound card as well, a Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio PCIe. However, after installing everything and updated the latest drivers, I found out that it only played back 2.0 sounds through the speakers, in that the front and rear pairs played the same audio, while the woofer doesn't play at all when I used a 5.1 test file (supposedly) that I got from a youtube link. However, when playing a regular 2 channel video, sound came from the woofer.
A solution that I found that I don't want to use if possible is to use the receiver's aux in port together with the onboard Realtek audio and set it so that it uses 5.1 speakers within the Realtek audio setting. However, a test of each speakers also showed that the woofer does not produce any sound, when it does on the optical audio.
Anyone with this same problem or knows the issue? Thanks in advance!