Recommend a 5.1 PC speaker system

[grimed]

Looking to listen to blue ray movies on my PC along with gaming.
I cant seem to get regular speakers to work threw a sound card or, HDMI out of my GPU .
I have tried optical out from my sound card and hdmi out from my gpu

 

[Ken g6]

I cant seem to get regular speakers to work threw a sound card or, HDMI out of my GPU .

What "regular speakers" have you been trying to use? What connector, what brand, model, etc. It might just be a software configuration issue.

 

[grimed]

They are some small Klipsch 5.1 Speakers,
Onkyo Receiver TN -NR609
Sound Blaster Z
A GTX 780 TI GPU

Tried Optical on the sound card and HDMI in from the GPU

 

[grimed]

The Speakers went threw the set up fine but nothing from the Pc. I tried swamping inputs in the receiver menu and still could hear anything

 

[Papa Hogan]

You may just need to go to the Realtek sound settings and set "Digital Output" as the default device (for optical output). *Could it be something similar with the Soundblaster? If that doesn't work, the next step I would hit is reinstalling sound drivers.

Are you able to select digital output in Foobar or other player? With 3 sound devices connected, you should be able to select any of them in Foobar.

*I misread. Now I see you have a Creative card.

 

[grimed]

I have a logitech 2.1 speaker a Very cheap one that works fine threw the SB card. I can not think of any item other item I would need to hook up digital

 

[mfenn]

Sounds to me like you don't have the correct audio output device set. Right click on the speaker icon in your system tray and clock Playback devices. You should see a window with a list of devices. Right click on the one that corresponds to the digital output you're using (HDMI or optical S/PDIF) and choose Set as Default Device.