Lucky Day
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Someone was asking about the best speakers to get a few weeks back and then I ran into my own troubles with my new system.
In doing some research I discovered just how bad Creative Labs has gotten with their near monopoly in the Sound Card business with fights with nVidia and MS over Vista (most issues have been solveD) etc.
Long story short I thought it would be helpful to start a thread where people can get useful advice on problematic equipment.
In CL's case their cards and speakers are proprietary equipment so here's some instructions if you bought CL's 7.1 speakers and don't have a CL card:
http://problemstosolve.com/computer...ire-set-without-a-creative-sound-card-solved/
Bottom line is that CL does not make their cards, and therefore the necessary cables, to proper 7.1 specifications.
In doing some research I discovered just how bad Creative Labs has gotten with their near monopoly in the Sound Card business with fights with nVidia and MS over Vista (most issues have been solveD) etc.
Long story short I thought it would be helpful to start a thread where people can get useful advice on problematic equipment.
In CL's case their cards and speakers are proprietary equipment so here's some instructions if you bought CL's 7.1 speakers and don't have a CL card:
http://problemstosolve.com/computer...ire-set-without-a-creative-sound-card-solved/
Bottom line is that CL does not make their cards, and therefore the necessary cables, to proper 7.1 specifications.