I bought 5.1 ArtDio home theater system speakers I connected them to my laptop (Dell M1330) and sound only came out of the two front speakers and the sub woofer, not the center and rear speakers. I tried playing around with my laptop by going to the sound settings in the control panel to get all the speakers working, but then I lost sound from ALL of the speakers including the speakers built into my laptop, so now I have NO sound at all. I connected the speakers to my iTouch and only the two front speakers and the sub woofer had sound coming out How do I get sound out of ALL of the speakers?
It isn't your speakers, it is the source. The music needs to be encoded for 5.1 (this means that it has to have information attached to the different noises that tells it to go to the back right speaker or the front left speaker). Your iPod is only encoded for stereo (left right). As for the computer, you should be able to go to Control PanelSoundsVolume tabAdvanced, in Speaker settings5.1 Surround sound speakers.
