Windows 7 RC 64 bit Surround Speakers no Sound in WMP

[geokilla]

1. Does anyone know how to force Windows Media Player to play music to all 4 speakers just like it did in Windows XP? As of right now, my music's only coming out from the main speakers. My surround speakers are completely dead. Enabling speaker fill does virtually nothing since all I get from the two surround speakers are low bit-rate, distorted music.

2. Does the formatting and installation take under 30 minutes? When I installed Windows 7 RC last night, the "format" process took only 5 seconds. Then I proceeded to install Windows 7 thinking that it'll do what XP does, format then install. Apparently that's not the case since I was able to log into Windows 7 30 minutes after.

3. I have a 9600GT with the NVIDIA 186.18 drivers installed, yet I got a score of 1.0 for Graphics: Desktop Performance for Windows Aero. I have Aero enabled too, I think.

Thanks.

Edit: Got another BSOD. Third one in two days. Picture of BSOD

 

[Raduque]

Looks like hardware problems. Have you tried memtest'ing your ram?

If you have a Realtek audio chip, and have the Realtek audio control panel (orange/brown speaker icon in your control panel), you should be able to enable a "mirrored" stereo mode that mirrors the front channels to the rear speakers. It worked well for me in Vista, but I don't have 4 speakers anymore. Besides, music is meant to be enjoyed in Stereo, unless you're playing surround music.

 

[geokilla]

I used Memtest on my RAM a long time ago and all was good. I might give it a run again but so far, my computer hasn't crashed yet. I dropped my 9600GT's Shaders from 1830 to 1815, and all is well so far.

I have speaker fill enabled, but that makes the surround speakers produce a lot bit-rate, distorted sound. Plus almost everything I do so far, the music is coming out of the main speakers regardless of whether I have Speaker fill enabled or not.

 

[geokilla]

It seems that other people are getting the same problem as me with Windows 7 as well. link

Also, my system has yet to give me a BSOD in 2 days. It's passed OCCT for 2 hours and 50 minutes, and passed 30 minutes of Linpack. I have yet to run Memtest and use Furmark to search for system instability.

 

[geokilla]

I GOT MY SOUND BACK ON MY SURROUND SPEAKERS! NO IT'S NOT BAD QUALITY SOUND! IT'S ACTUALLY GOOD QUALITY SOUND THAT I USED TO GET IN WINDOWS XP! YES!

For those who are using Realtek HD Audio and want to get surround sound when playing music and what not, do this. First download link, then install that. Then download link, and install that. Don't forget to restart the computer when prompted to. Once you do that, go into the Realtek HD Audio Manager and change your speaker setup from Stereo to whatever you have. Then run Creative Audio Console. Go to X-Fi CMSS 3D, click X-Fi CMSS3D Surround, in the Upmix Mode select Stereo Surround. Voila! If you want to change your other settings, run Creative Console Launcher. There you can change your equalizer settings and stuff. I changed mine to Rock. You change the X-Fi Crystalizer as well, but I have no idea what that does. I can't detect any change in sound when I change that so I left it alone for now.

Keep in mind that the Creative Audio Console and Creative Console Launcher has a 30 day trial. I'm going to be asking Daniel_K what happens after that trial expires. His blog is at: Daniel_K's blog

MANY THANKS DANIEL_K! HE'S DONE IT AGAIN!

 

[rackley]

0xAs are usually due to bad or incompatible drivers. Try loading the dump in a debugger and posting the !analyze -v info here (see my post here for info on how to do this: http://forums.anandtech.com/me...rthread=y&STARTPAGE=2). Sometimes it's easy to spot from just the output of that command.

The problem here is the kernel-mode code is trying to access paged or invalid memory at Dispatch level or above. When running at DPC/Dispatch (IRQL 2) or higher you can't access paged memory, because trying to do so would result in a page fault. When a page fault occurs, the memory manager initiates a disk I/O and waits for the file system driver to read the page. This wait would require the scheduler to perform a context switch, which can't be done because the scheduler can't be invoked at DPC/Dispatch or above..

Ray
[MSFT]