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    Acer Aspire 6920G and 5.1 Speakers Setup

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by JezPX73, Jan 10, 2011.

  1. JezPX73

    JezPX73 Newbie

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    Hi,

    I have an Acer Aspire 6920G Laptop and I want to connect some Creative 5700 5.1 Speakers to it, what is the best way to do this. I have tried connecting the Inspire 5.1 decoder using a din cable and then into the laptop (via the headphone/spdif/line out socket), but I get no sound. I have been into the control panel and selected 5.1 sound, but that still does not work. The soundcard is Realtek HD Audio.

    See below for some pictures of the connectors etc.

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    Any ideas on what I am doing wrong?

    A step by step guide would be great.

    Regards,
    Jez
     
    JezPX73, Jan 10, 2011
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  2. TehSuigi

    TehSuigi Notebook Virtuoso

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    The best way to do it is to use an optical cable (that's what the S/PDIF jack is meant for). Connect it to the back of your receiver using the optical jack, then use a TOSLINK-to-miniTOSLINK adapter (which is like a headphone plug but a bit longer) to connect it to the S/PDIF jack.

    Once that's done, select Realtek Digital Output from your Playback devices menu and tinker around. Dolby and DTS should be automatically streamed to the receiver, but uncompressed 5.1 will need to use the Dolby Digital Live 5.1 output format to encode it in real-time to a Dolby stream.

    The 5.1 Output option you tried to use is for a speaker system with three cables - it converts the headphones jack to front left/right speakers, the microphone jack to rear left/right speakers, and the line-in jack to center/subwoofer.
     
    TehSuigi, Jan 10, 2011
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    JezPX73 Newbie

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    Thanks TehSuigi.

    I purchased an optical cable and a Toslink Adaptor and now the 5.1 sound is working fine.

    I really appreciate your help :)

    Regards,
    Jez
     
    JezPX73, Jan 13, 2011
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    TehSuigi Notebook Virtuoso

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    My pleasure, Jez!
     
    TehSuigi, Jan 13, 2011
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