6 channel audio

[jimux]

Okay, so I bought some 5.1 speakers. It uses three plugs: one front, rear, and center/sub. The jacks on the back of my N2U400-A mobo only have line-in, mic, and line-out, yet the manual and box boast 6 channel audio. How do I get this? It has an SPDIF connector on the board, but I don't know anything about it. A search on pricewatch and ebay show the only products that have SPDIF anything are for output. How do I get this to send six channels to my speakers?

Thanks

 

[HDTVMan]

Some sound cards in their setting allow you to use the Mic/in or Line/in as an output. My Abit motherboard was like that. Check the sound card settings option in control panel.

 

[alcoholbob]

Maybe you have a motherboard with soundstorm onboard?

 

[Sentry2]

Motherboards with 6 channel(5.1) audio onboard usually only have three stereo jacks on them. Usually green is for main left and right speakers. I think the pink is usually for a mic/line in but can also be set up for surround left and right speakers. I think the other is black and is usually for some other input/output but can also be used for center/sub too. Not sure how to set them up for 5.1 on your board but I think if you just select 5.1 speakers in the windows sound/speaker options menu they should work. If not then your board might have an audio set up program so either way you need to set it to 5.1 speakers for them to work correctly. Just make sure that the windows speaker settings and your onboard sound settings sync with each other for it to work...they should do this automatically though. Hope this helps

 

[Sentry2]

SPDIF out is digital and you can't use that unless you're using an external decoder. 🙂

 

[alcoholbob]

Which you would have if you were more into music than gaming (bitperfect passthrough first, with possible second requirement, DDL for gaming).