Sound problems

[Squirrel]

We have four speakers and a big box thing that looks like a larger speaker (?) that they all plug in to. Some of the sound thingies on our computer include 'EAX' and 'Audio HQ' - hopefully this means more to you than it does to me. My problem is that only two out of the five speakers actually make any sound. I know the two back ones work because I think they did briefly, but now if I try to load up the 'Audio HQ' from Control Panel I get the error message:

'A required AHQman.DLL is of an incorrect version. Make sure that it is of the correct version'

I think this was what I used on our old computer to adjust the speaker balance and stuff, and now it won't open. Admittedly, I haven't attempted to update the driver, but if anyone has any other suggestions I would be grateful.

[sft42]

Sounds like the perfect description of my speakers which are a 4.1 labtec system......if it is this you should find that most of the 3.5ml jack plugs which connect up the system are colour coded to help useually they have two plugs into the soundcard (one for fronts and one for rears) with your subwoofer (the big box) being run from the fronts.....EAX is a cinema encoding system and not really that important unless you are going to be running DVD's thorugh the computer system....the .dll file is i think (jump in here lisaj or button) a driver file so the most obvious thing to do is find the make and model number and update your driver from the company website

[j2buttonsw]

I'm with sft42: reinstall the Creative HQ software http://www.soundblaster.com/

[Squirrel]

Thanks, I'll try that.