Why does 5.1 not work please help me guys

[iki080]

i have every thing set to 5.1 and only the front 2 speakers work. I have check to see if the colours were in the right place and they are also i did the sound test and all 5 speakers were playing, does any one know why it is doing this

i have vista home premium 32-bit

 

[eejit]

ok so is it that the surround sound function doesnt work? or is it that when you play sound through them only the front 2 work?
also i cant tell from your system specs if you have a sound card that supports surround sound. If you could shed a bit more light on the situation id be happy to help!

 

[SCSIraidGURU]

Control Panel sound. Look for speaker setup. Change it to 5.1. It defaults to 2 speaker. You can do a speaker check.

 

[Dwarf]

Hi iki080,

Is Speaker Fill enabled, as shown below? This option creates a virtual environment for playback of stereo audio sources on surround speaker systems.