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satolfea · 06-23-2009, 11:48 AM

Hi, first post, hope it's okay to just jump in and ask away...

I've got a Creative Labs sb0410 sound card, and some random 5.1 speaker system that's been lying around for years, it's just occurred to me to combine the two. When I tried, however, it seems there aren't enough spaces for all the wires I need! You'll have to excuse the very technical language that follows... At the back of the main speaker, where all the other speakers plug into, there are only 3 sockets - a left, right and some other one (I don't have the thing in front of me). There are spaces to plug the 5 speakers in, that bit's easy, but how do I connect this thing to my sound card to get more than 2.1?

What I've been doing up to now is just using a normal headphone jack, that splits into L and R, and plugging that into the back of the main unit from the headphone jack on the sound card, but surely there's a way... I'm further confused by the 4 different sockets on the back of the sound card, headphones, mike, ? and ?.

Thanks in advance!

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satolfea Registered User Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 4 OS: vista	5.1 Surround sound connection question Hi, first post, hope it's okay to just jump in and ask away... I've got a Creative Labs sb0410 sound card, and some random 5.1 speaker system that's been lying around for years, it's just occurred to me to combine the two. When I tried, however, it seems there aren't enough spaces for all the wires I need! You'll have to excuse the very technical language that follows... At the back of the main speaker, where all the other speakers plug into, there are only 3 sockets - a left, right and some other one (I don't have the thing in front of me). There are spaces to plug the 5 speakers in, that bit's easy, but how do I connect this thing to my sound card to get more than 2.1? What I've been doing up to now is just using a normal headphone jack, that splits into L and R, and plugging that into the back of the main unit from the headphone jack on the sound card, but surely there's a way... I'm further confused by the 4 different sockets on the back of the sound card, headphones, mike, ? and ?. Thanks in advance!