AA1500 External Sound

Try doing a restore point back to a date that you know it was working.

Good Luck Bud!

This is an issue with the driver or configuration.

Make sure you have the latest updated drivers for the device

When sound is coming from front for 5.1 system, its most probably to do with settings.Stereo mode Outputs from front speakers only. Try finding a radio button inside sound settings for 5.1 Audio system.

It is most probably found under " Speaker Configuration" Settings.

Sometime on your right speaker there is left/right control, check that, double click on the speaker (bottom right) and see if the slide balance selector above the volume level is one way or the other. then go to your control panel and click on Sound and Audio Devices click on the speaker volume and if that's ok then check next to that is Advance, click there and in the drop down arrow box make sure Desktop Stereo Speakers is displayed, apply and ok. And finally, uninstall and reinstall the audio drivers (choosing the correct operating system)
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DriverDownload.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodNameId=3785037&taskId=135&prodTypeId=12454&prodSeriesId=3784892&submit.y=5&submit.x=8&lang=en&cc=us&y=2&x=5
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Uninstall all sound drivers for the card. Delete all folder and use search to locate everything related to the sound card. Remove card , turn comp on w/o card. Turn off reinsert card.
Should fix it.
Vista has many,many issues like this.
If you have more types of sound listed in "SOUNDS" delete all but Audigy.
Re-install drivers AFTER you get ALL NEW VISTA UPDATES>
Mastersage

it might be because of windows vista :/ just to make shure did you download off of their website for the vista drivers and not off of the disc that came with it??? btw on a second thought... unless you have a laptop, internal sound cards are more compatible, cheaper, and better than external sound cards... it takes about 3-5 seconds to install in your computer, i remember the first time i had to install a sound card.... i thought it would be really hard and i would break everything. i realized that a monkey can do it. well, to solve your problem i recommend download the right drivers for vista and not the one with your disc... probably your driver should be something like::

"(model#) creative external sound card windows vista X86"

since 32bit oses are popular among manufactures, i think it should be something like that.

you might have to go to www.microsoft.com and look for driver updates for your sound card for vista .

i have no sound drive in my system so please permit me 2 download sound drive from ur product please grant me 2 download

Have you tried plugging external speakers or headphones?

I would check the usual...mute is off...volume is up...etc.

Good luck.

download the sound driver from here

ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp34001-34500/sp34210.exe

Check your audio settings to make sure that it's going to the right driver. goto: start -> control panel -> sound and audio devices out of the 5 tabs, you'll want to pay attention to 2 of them, these are the "audio" and "voice" tabs. Make sure that your speakers on are the external sound system's drivers and not your internal sound card. (Basically, make your sound playback the same as your sound recording)