I have a set of Creative GigaWorks g500 speakers that have finally died on me. The internal amp loses power immediately after I turn the unit on. Ive read up online about the issue, and have found I am not the only person with this problem. I even found a supposed answer to the problem here (http://forums.techarena.in/hardware-peripherals/1403222.htm ) and here ( http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=pl&u=http://www.elektroda.pl/rtvforum/topic1690430.html&ei=tP-QTr-rOKHy0gG7z5QR&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CD0Q7gEwAg&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dgigaworks%2Bg500%2Bfault%2Bprotection%2Bcircuit%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1366%26bih%3D644%26prmd%3Dimvns ), but sadly the magnet never worked for me (I believe that the fault protection circuit discussed on that post and in several others is not on the US unit it is only on the export version).
Im wondering if there is anyone on here who might have a different solution to get the unit working again. I am also wondering anyone knows a way for me to recycle to speakers with a different (cheaper) 5.1 computer speaker system. The speakers are THX certified and use about 36 watts of power per channel. I was looking at buying a different 5.1 unit for about 100 dollars and using my speakers instead of the included ones, but most units I find only put out about 6 12 watts a channel which I think will cause damage to the GigaWorks speakers.
Im wondering if there is anyone on here who might have a different solution to get the unit working again. I am also wondering anyone knows a way for me to recycle to speakers with a different (cheaper) 5.1 computer speaker system. The speakers are THX certified and use about 36 watts of power per channel. I was looking at buying a different 5.1 unit for about 100 dollars and using my speakers instead of the included ones, but most units I find only put out about 6 12 watts a channel which I think will cause damage to the GigaWorks speakers.
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