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I have had an Onkyo 5.1 audio receiver hooked up to my PC for years via HDMI with no past issues getting 5.1 audio to properly output. Today I tried to listen to an album mixed for surround and realized my setup was no longer channeling audio correctly.
I've gone through the Windows 10 speaker setup menu to confirm that they're still set for 5.1 Surround, but when I hit 'Test', the tones for all 5 channels individually play through the front speakers (Left, Right, Center), and no audio ever comes out of the rear speakers (though the tones intended from them do play through the three front speakers). The test tone for the bass plays normally. If I switch the Speaker Setup in Windows to just stereo, the stereo audio correctly plays with left audio coming out of front and rear left, etc.
If I go into the menu within the audio receiver, I am able to play test tones confirming that the receiver itself can send test tones to the proper speakers, which makes me confident this is coming from Windows and not my hardware setup.
I'm not sure how to trace this to a root cause as I'm not sure how long ago the setup stopped working correctly. I installed an Nvidia 1080 graphics card in Nov 2017, which is what the audio receiver connects to, but I'm confident the system has worked correctly since then. I have two monitors connected via DisplayPort cable to the same graphics card, though I've disabled their audio in Windows sound manager. I also have a stereo audio-out via digital optical cable that's connected to the motherboard rather than the graphics card (the HDMI surround sound and the optical stereo setup are in different rooms and I flip between them depending on where I am in the house). These DisplayPort and optical cable connections were added about a month ago.
The driver for the graphics card as well as the Nvidia HD Audio Driver are both up to date. Any input on how to get my surround audio channels sorted out would be greatly appreciated and I can provide whatever additional details might be helpful upon request.
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So, I recently bought the z506 5.1 surround sound speaker set. For this particular version, I am not sure if it is because it is newer, the only actual connection to the pc is the green cable. This seems to correspond with the motherboard itself as it only has the mic (pink) sound out (green) and line out (blue). I have checked every connection to make sure they are all in the proper place and they are. I assume to some extent they are functioning correctly as if I throw on some music subwoofer fires out bass etc. So at least the crossover is working. The motherboard is an ASRock z97 Anniversary which I ensured indeed has surround sound. It actually supports up to 7.1 but that is neither here nor there, 5.1 is supported. I got the Windows 10 64-bit driver from their site and Windows 10 Creator's Update build 1703 assures me that it is the latest. Please help if you can. While it is great that all speakers do indeed function, it would be great if they did so when it was appropriate. Sorry for being longwinded I was trying not to leave any stone unturned.