Hy,
i hope someone could help me with this problem =>

I bought Genius sound maker value 5.1 (soundcard) and Logitech x-530 (speakers)
Installed the soundcard drivers and properly connected the speakers. But then when I test the speakers (with an program supplied with the soundcard) i get sound only from subwoofer and center speaker
I have all the settings set to 5.1 speakers but it still doesnt work, so i made a fresh install of win xp and i still have the same problem any ideas

(yes i disbled my onboard soundcard in bios, yes i tried with ac3 and without it, yes i have the lastes drivers ...)

Help appriciated

Hmm .. with all that I would make sure you wired it up properly ... that's about the only thing that could be wrong.

I used to have a similar problem with my creative sound card and speakers, and the way I fixed it was to reinstall the drivers twice over. The first time I installed the drivers the sound did not work at all, but the second time they worked great ... so I hope that helped ... I dont know of anything else other than inproper wiring or maybe the sound card is a bit loose, which is unlikely if screwed in properly. Or maybe the speakers are broken/faulty ... try rewiring and see if you can make the left or right speakers work instead of the center speaker.

This may be of interest to you in testing out your new sound system.

While diddling around with sound, which I am just beginning to explore beyond system installed basics, I found an interesting test suite at the Fraunhofer IIS MP3 Surround Evaluation site.

Fraunhofer IIS MP3 Surround Evaluation
http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/amm/download/index.html
http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/amm/download/mp3surround/

This Demo Song suite is a 33482KB .zip download, with an interesting range of songs.

The site's main point is to permit download of Fraunhofer's MP3 Surround sound software evaluation suite, which is a 5573KB file, in ver. 1.1.0.

When I installed in January of this year, after some tweaking, it seemed to work well enough with my Winamp and the on'board sound on this Dell 1800mhz machine. Today, the mp3's are still working, but the .wav channel test track for the suite locks up Winamp. This is apparently because of changes to Winamp, which I've upgraded a couple of times recently for security fixes.

I hope the upgrade to 1.1.0 will fix that problem and not break anything. My impression at the time of the original install was that even without surround sound (5.1?) speakers, and operating directly off of the system board sound plug, the Fraunhofer software improved the sound quality on my machine. Question is, will I be able to make the upgrade work as well, or at all? More later.