Question I can't get the rear speakers working with ASRock X670 Taichi ?

[SLI_Fallen]

Apparently, for some inexplicable reason, this board does NOT have a jack for the rear speakers on the rear I/O of the MB. Manual says the FRONT mic/headphone port is used for this in a 5.1 speaker configuration (umm thanks for wrecking the ascetics of my build that I have to run a cable from the front of the PC to the back just for speakers, but I digress)

Anyway. The front, center and subwoofer channels are working fine when testing (windows speaker configuration test, where it sends a tone to each channel) But I have no sound from the rears. This is a new build and the speakers work perfectly on the old rig so it is not a speaker hardware issue.

I have USB wireless headphones so there is no conflict with any analog cables for that.

How do I get the rear speakers to work properly with this front mic/headphone port?

TIA

 

[4745454b]

It would be very helpful to know which speakers.

Looking up your board online, you don't have the three 3.5mm plugs needed for the common 5.1 setup. It will either need to be done digitally, or possibly they did make it work with the front/case jacks. If that's how the manual said to do it, that's how it's done. It might be time to upgrade the speakers to one that uses the digital out.

 

[stonecarver]

Function of the Audio Ports in 2, 4 or 5.1-channel Configuration:Channel Port Function

2ch Line----- Out Jack(Rear Panel)----- Front speaker out

4ch------ Pink-Mic(Front Panel)----- Rear speaker out

5.1ch----- Microphone Input Jack(Rear Panel)----- Central/Subwoofer speaker out


Page 10 in manual

https://download.asrock.com/Manual/X670E%20Taichi_English.pdf

 

[4745454b]

Pg 10? Doesn't show that.

Most 3.5mm plugs can only carry 2 things. You need 3 ports to do what he wants. Unless the ports and plugs on the speakers are setup to handle 3. So the 2 in the back plus the case port if the board is configured to do that. It's normally a switch. To make it easy I'd just use the digital out.

 

[SLI_Fallen]

The speakers are Logitech Z906. I tried the optical SPDIF connection, and all that shows up in the speaker config in windows is 2 channel to choose from. Period. Stonecarver, perhaps you missed this part in my original post. "Manual says the FRONT mic/headphone port is used for this in a 5.1 speaker configuration"

 

[stonecarver]

Was there a software suite that came with motherboard to control outputs for surround sound.

Or in bios to hard set the outputs from mic to rear speakers by that front case port.

weird configuration set up.
I have never seen on Windows side in sound configuration/ outputs for two mic's.

In your case rear/front mics are independent not just internally just "Y" ed off.

 

[4745454b]

If you tried the digital connection and it only showed 2 channel, do you have the drivers loaded? Check for an update? I strongly feel that's the way to go.

 

[boju]

Do you have Realtek audio console app to reassign front panel jacks?

https://www.asrock.com/support/faq.asp?id=469