[SOLVED] How Can I Make 5.1 Sound?

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Hello!

I bought a pre-built PC without any program installed on it.
Asrock B450M Pro 4 Motherboard, Reatle 892 audio codec.
I installed Windows 10.
The motherboard has 3 jack audio output on the backside.

Now, how can I make 5.1 audio output on this 3 jacks?
 
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royalflush1993 said:
I have already tried it, the problem is that it shows the same there:
https://imgur.com/MugLMBZ
View: https://imgur.com/MugLMBZ
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It may be the driver you have loaded doesn't provide 5.1 support, only Quadrophonic. I had to be running the audio driver that came from my motherboard's web site to get the 5.1 settings and the default Windows driver doesn't provide it. Are you running the latest audio driver downloaded from the Asrock web site?
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drea.drechsler said:
You might be able to connect front/rear/sub speakers using the three jacks (page 9 of the manual) but I think it also needs the Realtek HD Audio Control Console to enable 5.1 and 7.1. So make sure that's installed and check to see if there's a control for it in the console.
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The audio jacks are connected corrected, at least green-into-green, red-into-red, black-into-blue (Logitech 5.1 surround sound system has only black one, I had not any better idea).
Thereafter I installed Realtek Audio driver from the Realtek website, it is dated 2017, so it is very old. Now I have this one:
https://imgur.com/2LPhGFE
 
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royalflush1993 said:
The audio jacks are connected corrected, at least green-into-green, red-into-red, black-into-blue (Logitech 5.1 surround sound system has only black one, I had not any better idea).
Thereafter I installed Realtek Audio driver from the Realtek website, it is dated 2017, so it is very old. Now I have this one:
https://imgur.com/2LPhGFE
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The manual for your board says: rear speakers (left/right) to the BLUE connector, front speakers (left/right) to the GREEN connector and the sub woofer/center speaker to the PINK connector. These are the REAR connectors only.

I think, with speakers connected as above I'd select the Quadrophonic selection and then the Surround Speakers and see what that gives. I'm curious to know if it will decode Dolby 5.1 as I'd imagine it needs a Dolby licensed driver. If not, it could be a 'virtual' 5.1 experience.

To know for certain you have the speakers connected correctly there should be a test button that outputs a sound to each speaker individually. Or try this multi-channel audio test which is more thorough:
https://www2.iis.fraunhofer.de/AAC/multichannel.html
 
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royalflush1993 said:
The audio jacks are connected corrected, at least green-into-green, red-into-red, black-into-blue (Logitech 5.1 surround sound system has only black one, I had not any better idea).
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OK...I have dicovered a way to enable 5.1 speaker arrangement with just the driver, using Window control panels.

You have to get to the Sound applet in the Control Panel, with the sound drivers installed and working correctly. Open the Control Panel and change the "View by:" to "Icons" (large or small, your choice). Look for the Sound Icon and click on it. Scroll down to Speakers (it should have a check mark if it's the selected output device) and click on it. Then click on the Configure button at the bottom of the applet window.

It should open into a speaker setup configuration window where you can select Stereo, Quadraphonic, 5.1 or 7.1 surround. It probably depends on driver capability.
 
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Dragos Manea said:
You must go to microphone section and change microphone to subwoofer input and line-in section to change line-in to soround speakers i think. Also check this options in advanced setting (blue text top right)
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drea.drechsler said:
OK...I have dicovered a way to enable 5.1 speaker arrangement with just the driver, using Window control panels.

You have to get to the Sound applet in the Control Panel, with the sound drivers installed and working correctly. Open the Control Panel and change the "View by:" to "Icons" (large or small, your choice). Look for the Sound Icon and click on it. Scroll down to Speakers (it should have a check mark if it's the selected output device) and click on it. Then click on the Configure button at the bottom of the applet window.

It should open into a speaker setup configuration window where you can select Stereo, Quadraphonic, 5.1 or 7.1 surround. It probably depends on driver capability.
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I have already tried it, the problem is that it shows the same there:
https://imgur.com/MugLMBZ
View: https://imgur.com/MugLMBZ
 
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royalflush1993 said:
I have already tried it, the problem is that it shows the same there:
https://imgur.com/MugLMBZ
View: https://imgur.com/MugLMBZ
Click to expand...
It may be the driver you have loaded doesn't provide 5.1 support, only Quadrophonic. I had to be running the audio driver that came from my motherboard's web site to get the 5.1 settings and the default Windows driver doesn't provide it. Are you running the latest audio driver downloaded from the Asrock web site?
 
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drea.drechsler said:
It may be the driver you have loaded doesn't provide 5.1 support, only Quadrophonic. I had to be running the audio driver that came from my motherboard's web site to get the 5.1 settings and the default Windows driver doesn't provide it. Are you running the latest audio driver downloaded from the Asrock web site?
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Uhm... Could You tell me the exact version number of the drive please?
 
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drea.drechsler said:
It won't be the relevant to you as I have an Asus motherboard and it uses a custom audio CODEC made by Realtek for Asus...it's the ALC S1200A.

Right now, though, I'm using the Windows default drivers. The version reported from Device Manager, Driver properties, is 10.0.22621.608.
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I got it!
I downloaded from ASRock website, installed, checed the jacks. Now it works fine. Million thans!
 
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