I have plugged the speakers into a working outlet, and the speakers are connected to each other. To connect to the computer, I put it into the green insert. I can hear static coming out of the speakers, but no sounds from the computer will come out. When I try to trouble shoot, it does not even acknowledge that the speakers are hooked up. Any help you could give would be much appreciated. Thank you.

It should be OK BUT if the JBL and the Logitech are plugged into different mains outlets you could get a hum from one or both sets of speakers. This hum is caused by an earth loop when the speakers are connect to different mains outlets.
The fix.
Connect a power board to a mains outlet and then plug the mains connections from both set of speakers and computer to this power board.

Hi names Rui i like to help you by giving you step by step instruction in propely hocking up your logitech speakers:

Instructions

1. Connect the black plug of the rear right speaker into the black plug on the subwoofer.

2. Connect the yellow plug on the rear left speaker into the yellow input on the subwoofer.

3. Connect the red plug of the front center speaker into the red input on the subwoofer.

4. Connect the white plug of the front left speaker into the white input on the subwoofer.

5. Connect the d-sub connector plug from the front right speaker into the d-plug connector on the subwoofer.

6. Connect the green, black and orange input to the matching plugs on your computer. If you have a four-channel sound card, connect the green plug from the input audio cable to the front plug of the card and the black plug to the rear plug. Do not connect the orange input. If you are using a two-channel sound card, connect the green plug from the input audio cable to the "Line Out" jack on the sound card. Do not connect the green and orange plug.

7. Plug the subwoofer power chord into the electrical power outlet.

8. Place your subwoofer on ground around your computer desk. Position the front center speaker on top of your computer monitor.

9. Place the left and right front speakers on the sides of the monitor. Position the left and right rear speakers behind you, making sure they are pointing toward the front left and right speakers.

10. needs to support 5.1 surround. Normally, more than three sockets for sound indicates that it does. Then you need to use the software that comes with the sound hardware to configure it for 5.1 - Default will be 2.1 or just 2.
Check the control panel out. This is a lot easier under Windows 7.- Here you can access what you need via the speaker icon on the system tray (right click)
There is NO problem with your OS or hardware, this is pretty standard...

hope this will help you solve your problem.

Could be the outlet, or the power strip if it is on one. would try a new outlet in a different room. return the speakers if this does not work.

Hello, the pink one is for connecting to a microphone outlet on the pc. The green one is for connecting to the line or audio out on the pc. In order to get sound on your speakers you can forget about the pink one for now. You may have your audio connectors on the front of your pc, so take a good look there (unless your husband remembers NOT unplugging anything from the front.) You want to plug your green speaker wire/connector either to a green socket or one marked "headphone" or "output" or "out". You mention in your 2nd to last sentence a green plug? Don't worry about the shade of green; if it's a green socket that looks like a your speakers will fit into, then that'll be it. Take a closer look at it for writing or a symbol. Make sure you push the jack plug firmly in; quite often it'll go in an extra quarter-inch and make the connection. If you're really stumped, if you can take a digital picture of the pc rear panel I may be able to point it out for you. I'll be on line for 2 more hours or so.
Regards,
nicam49

Look on the back of your computer for GREEN and PINK and BLUE sockets.

PINK - plug a microphone into this socket.
BLUE -- plug an audio-device (CD-player, iPod, cassette deck) into this "audio-in" port
GREEN - plug your speakers into this "audio-out" port.

Connect the speakers to an AC power-outlet.

Step 1 Connect the green connector
from the subwoofer into the green jack on the computer
(the black connector is not used)

Step 2 Plug the orange connector from the right/control satellite into the orange jack on the subwoofer.
Step 3 Plug the brown connector from the left satellite into the brown jack on the subwoofer.
Step 4 Plug the AC plug into the wall outlet.
Step 5 Turn on the speaker set and adjust the volume accordingly.

Hello. Try the green plug in the green outlet on the computer,this should power the speakers.You should then go to Controll Panel and then sound and audio device to check the sound output configuration.
builderdale

Be sure to plug into the "green" socket on the front of the computer, not the "pink" (microphone) or "blue" (headphone output from iPod) socket.

Try the speakers in the "green" socket on the back of the computer, to ensure that the speakers work, and the volume control is "high", and that you have not "muted" your speakers.

Some motherboards have a small "jumper" to enable/disable the front audio-output sockets.

Try the speakers when connected to the headphone-output from your iPod, to confirm that they work -- they could be quite quiet.

your speaker connections are plugged in incorrectly or the speakers are not plugged in and powered on.
check the back of the computer where your speakers are plugged in and make sure you speakers are plugged into the right colors

Find the Audio card of you computer. Mostly audio card jack had label line out or audio. Also audio out jack was light green in color.