I have a creative sound blaster x-fi xtreme audio card and in the settings it gives me an option not to mute my speakers when the headphones are plugged in. however when i do plug headphones in the speakers still mute, and i just have sound through the headphone socket, any ideas as to how i can get sound coming through my speakers and the headphone socket?? thanks, rich.

Try going to with the Creative sound mixer or the windows sound mixer to check if by any chance the output is muted. Also I believe that this is quite an old card so maybe with newer versions of windows it might run into driver problems. If I remember rightly on this card there was an option to choose between digital or analogue output most probably you have it set on digital. You need to go through the sound card settings in the software that came with it and change that setting to analogue.

sir i need driver software supported windows7 for creative sound blaster 5.1vx sound card....
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Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 will be the best option as creative soundcard worls great with creative speakers....

first u cheak the speaker connection on ur mother board.after u cheak the volume options I think u select the mute option cheak box.remove the rightmark on cheak box,Or disble the soubd option in BIOS settings.First ucheak the total options after reinstall the sound drivers.

If you are using the mic with a software such as karaoke or stuff like that you should mute the playback on your mic from windows

did you download the latest drivers from the website?

sound blaster cards are known problem makers they don't play well with others go to start-controll panel-system-hardware-device manager and find your realtek hdmi and disable it its eather 1 or the other you cant have both. sorry

further to this... go to this site... you will see a button that says autoupdate.... click on that it should detect and install the driver for you

http://support.creative.com/Products/ProductDetails.aspx?catID=1&CatName=Sound+Blaster&subCatID=208&subCatName=X-Fi&prodID=16770&prodName=PCI+Express+X-Fi+Xtreme+Audio

what the hell are you talking about, the card isn't "vista only"

This Sound Blaster X-Fi Vista Installation CD is intended to support X-Fi products bought before a Vista installation CD was available in the box.
It supports the following models:

• SB X-Fi Xtreme Music (SB0460)
• SB X-Fi Xtreme Gamer (SB0730/SB073A)
• SB X-Fi Xtreme Gamer - Fatal1ty Professional Series (SB046A)
• SB X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS (SB0466/SB0256)
• SB X-Fi Platinum (SB0460/SB0251)
• SB X-Fi Platinum Fatal1ty Champion Series (SB046A/SB0256)
• SB X-Fi Elite Pro (SB0550/SB0510, SB055A/SB0510) This CD does not support the Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio range (SB0790/SB0792).
  

This Sound Blaster X-Fi Vista Installation CD includes a full suite of drivers and applications:

• X-Fi Mode Consoles (Gaming/Entertainment/Audio Creation)
• Creative Mode Switcher
• Creative Audio Console
• THX Console
• Creative MediaSource 5
• Creative Smart Recorder 2
• Creative WaveStudio
• SoundFont Bank Manager
• Creative 3DMIDI Player
• Creative Diagnostics
• Creative Entertainment Center

For more information on how to obtain a copy of Sound Blaster X-Fi Vista Installation CD, please refer to our regional sites at www.europe.creative.com or us.creative.com.
Windows XP applications do not work with Windows Vista. When launched, it will display a message "The audio device supported by this application is not detected. The application will exit" even though your Sound Blaster card is working properly.
If you have installed any Windows XP applications for your Sound Blaster X-Fi card, it is recommended that you uninstall these (Windows XP) applications before installing the Sound Blaster X-Fi Vista Installation CD. To uninstall, go to Control Panel, and select Programs and Features, and then choose the applications that you need to uninstall.