SO i went home for thanksgiving. (away from college, my dorm, and my 4.1 logitec Surround Sound) i updated to the lastest nVidia mobo drivers for the abit nf7-s r2.0. i didnt know it then but when i got back to my dorm my wound was messed up... for some reason i nothing comes out of the back speakers when i play music. i use winamp to play music. when i go into a game like HL2 sounds comes out the back speakers......i cant understand this, when i go to the nvMixer i can get sound to come out of the back speakers useing speaker wizard. Not when i use winamp. I tried the newest winamp, 5.06 and it didnt change anything. does anyone have any ideas?????

Did you try rolling the nvidia drivers back to the previous version?

Quote: Originally Posted by droeblek9 Did you try rolling the nvidia drivers back to the previous version?

dont remember which drivers they were. but ill try some different one

anyone know a good sound driver

Did you also update the IDE drivers along with the latest chipset drivers?
And are you using the onboard sound?

yes i updated the whole unified dirver. and yes i am using onboard sound

I could be wrong (wouldn't be a first), but it sounds as if this issue started immediately after you updated the unified driver. Try reinstalling the unified driver, and/or try installing an older one and see if that works.

aaaahhh
so i installed old drivers.....nothing. i figured it out. it is something to do with winamp, becuase i tried playin music in Windows Media Player and it works on all 4 speakers. tried isntalling old version of winamp and it still does it.......i donno what to do im lost....

Good sound cards are pretty cheap nowadays....

Quote: Originally Posted by godfoot Good sound cards are pretty cheap nowadays....

Yeah, but anything short of an Audigy 2 will not top Soundstorm in performance and clarity.

Completely remove the nForce drivers from Add//Remove Programs then install the excellent 6.14 Beta's.

thanx tek, im going to try it out right now. and i agree i love soundstorm. its some of the best onboard ive ever heard. beats the crap outa soundlbaster live 5.1

UPDATE!!!! aight so tek i installed the betas. and it didnt make a difference, winamp still wont play to all four speakers, windows media player will. but not winamp. ill try a couple of different versions and see what happens.....

alright....after a lot of time spent trying to figure out what the problem was i had no luck.....for some reason winamp does not work on all 4 speakers, no matter what drivers i use. So i have no changed to sonique its a really need little program with cool visuals. thanks for the help guys.

btw. A M P mod got stolen last saterday, busted out my window and everything.....arg.....freaking a.....

Man, that sucks. Sorry about your loss...i'm firmly convinced that there is a special place in hell for thieves.

agreed, but i did some out with a new amp. my dad bought it for me. kinda a christmas present but its noice to still have bump. l

Sorry guys, but I think you're wrong. I have ABIT nf7-s v.2.0 and it's a great mobo. Integrated music chip is excelent ( better than Live 5.1 digital), and I use to have the same problem. New or old drivers or program versions of Winamp is not the solution. It's very simple. i use nvidia unified driver v5.10 and Winamp v5.09.
Just go to options >preferences>output choose direct sound output v2.2.12 or else and important part go to configure choose NVIDIA(R) nForce(TM) Audio instead of Primary Sound Driver, and check the checkbox for Allow hardware acceleration, apply>ok and that's it. Maybe you need to restart or just stop and play again to take effects. Now play music on 4 speakers. Please answer to see if it works.